Talk:Bureau of the Public Debt

Amount of Treasry Revenues

Not very balanced
More than 1/2 the article is about public key stuff. That would be like having a 2 page article on General Motors that had 1.5 pages on Delco radios.

The main topic is the debt, but that's too quickly covered. What is the role of Treasury Dept., the Fed, difference between types of debt, etc. The Wikipedia article on the debt itself is very good, and could be a source. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 168.103.225.161 (talk) 03:14, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

Was the name "Public Debt" changed to "Fiscal Service" just to hide the word "debt"? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.49.20.187 (talk) 00:08, 5 February 2014 (UTC)

2nd and 3rd paragraphs
Are confusing. Can anybody clean them up? It's all technical stuff --AW 19:36, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

Reference to SSP Certification
The article states that in July 2007, the US Treasury's PKI SSP was certified under FIPS 201. I found the following as a possible reference for this statement, although it is not a full article:

https://pki.treas.gov/news.htm

Should this be used as a reference? mdkarazim (talk) 15:39, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

More information on the SSP Program
It is hard to explain something technical in a non-technical fashion.

Public Debt, on behalf of Treasury, operates a program where they provide Public Key Infrastructure services to the rest of the federal government. PKI is the one of the technologies that makes smart cards work. Since Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 requires all federal employees to have smart-cards, all employees need PKI certificates stored on those cards to comply. There is currently a list of GSA entities that can provide that technology to federal agencies. That list is maintained at the following address. http://www.cio.gov/fpkipa/cpl.htm

These cards containing PKI credentials will be used for Physical and Logical access. Public Debt currently has NASA, Main Treasury, and Social Security Administration as customers. Others will surely follow.

More information about the process of becoming an SSP can be found in the following document from the Federal PKI Policy Authority site

http://www.cio.gov/fpkipa/documents/SSProadmap.pdf

—Preceding unsigned comment added by 166.123.208.241 (talk) 18:50, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

Clarifications made
The PKI discussion was cleaned up, removing the inaccurate references to the GSA FIPS-201 evaluation program. If you would like to see more content on other Public Debt business and duties, add it :) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.164.54.165 (talk) 23:03, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

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