Note that the theme of this regular event broadened in 2007-08 t encompass all "trust" and identity approaches, not only PKI.

1st Annual PKI Research Workshop - Dartmouth College 2002

2nd Annual PKI Research Workshop - NIST Gaithersburg MD 2003

3rd Annual PKI Research Workshop - NIST Gaithersburg MD 2004

4th Annual PKI Research Workshop - NIST Gaithersburg MD 2005

An original PKI Forum whitepaper from 2002.

Includes interesting and easily understood examples from the mortgage industry, online brokerage, enterprise extranet securit, clinical data exchange with the FDA, and Identity Cards. 

A rich set of links to mainly government documents covering records management and a range of online service delivery topics in addition to PKI and trust.

See also the FPKI links page.  

EXTRACT

A presentation on a semi-customised PKI smartcard deployed to a large public hopsital in support of a range of innovavtive e-health applications.  

EXTRACT

Stephen Kent

Chief Scientist - BBN Technologies

Co-chair: PKIX WG - IETF

Presentation to the Asia PKI Forum, Shanghai China, July 2004.

Excellent expose of some of the traditional problems CAs got themselves into with one size fits all certificates.  From Kent's slides:

PKIX Standards Status & PKI Directions

Dr. Stephen Kent

3rd International Symposium of the Asia PKI Forum, Korea, 2003

An excellent commentary on alternate PKI models, and the unnecessary complication of "trust" in many PKI applications.

Dr. Stephen Kent

Chief Scientist, BBN Technologies

Co-chair, PKIX WG, IETF

Presentation to   3rd International Symposium of the Asia PKI Forum, Korea, 2003

An excellent overview of the position of the "PKIX" standards series, and including some provocative and constructive remarks about the future of PKI.

For example, 

Stephen WIlson, China Communications, Dec 2005

One of the most comprehensive PKI link farms, including probably every CA on the planet, plus an exhaustive list of legislation and technical standards.