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I was reading a pretty good (if a little bland) piece on PKI today on the ZDNet announcments newsletter, when it suddenly struck me that I couldn't remember the last time anyone actually dared to say the "P" word aloud. It feels as if PKI has been airbrushed from history at the moment: we talk about strong authentication or certificate lifecycle management, but PKI itself seems tarred with the same brush as X.500 and other nasty, difficult, unsexy old hat directory stuff. So much so that if you see the Gartner hype curve for IdM (I don't have a link, sorry), you'll notice that PKI doesn't even appear. There is no PKI; there never was PKI; no-one here ever said there was or recommended you deploy it; move along, there is nothing to see.

PS. Read the comment from one disgruntled ZDNet reader for a chuckle.