About PKIF
PKIF is a full-featured, standards compliant PKI enablement library. Its goal is to make it easy for your applications to take advantage of your PKI. PKIF runs on Windows and UNIX systems and is written in C++ with bindings for C# (and COM/.Net) and java. PKIF can validate certificates, create and verify signatures, encrypt and decrypt data, and much more.
Who makes PKIF?
PKIF is sponsored by the US Marine Corps Systems Command. It’s built by Cygnacom Solutions. PKIF’s DER encoding and decoding runtime is licensed from Objective Systems.
What applications can use PKIF?
PKIF’s goal is to be usable from any application that needs to take advantage of Public Key Infrastructure services, whether on the server or on the desktop. We’ve used PKIF in many desktop applications and in Webcullis.