Title :
Proposal of Constructing PKI on Overlay Network
Author :
Okada, Yukio ; Hazeyama, Hiroaki ; Kadobayashi, Youki
Author_Institution :
Nara Inst. of Sci. & Technol.
Abstract :
In this paper, we present the design of foundation PKI (fPKI), a PKI system constructed on an overlay network for an open source community. fPKI can provide an alternative PKI system to the current server-client PKI system. The certificate authority (CA) system of the fPKI is composed of the reputation of each committer, which has been assessed by the SecureEigenTrust algorithm. fPKI inherits the scalability of SecureEigenTrust, and also inherits the common CA usage of the server-client PKI system
Keywords :
client-server systems; digital signatures; public key cryptography; SecureEigenTrust algorithm; certificate authority system; open source community; overlay network; server-client PKI system; Authentication; Network servers; Peer to peer computing; Personal communication networks; Privacy; Proposals; Protection; Public key; Scalability; Telecommunications;
Conference_Titel :
Applications and the Internet Workshops, 2007. SAINT Workshops 2007. International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Hiroshima
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2757-4
Electronic_ISBN :
0-7695-2757-4
DOI :
10.1109/SAINT-W.2007.88
