Authenticated public key distribution scheme without trusted third party

Jae Hyung Koo, Bum Han Kim, Dong Hoon Lee

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Abstract

Public key authentication is necessary to prevent a valid public key of a user from being compromised by a malicious user. Namely, if it is not provided, an adversary can read all encrypted messages between a sender and a receiver by substituting the public key of the receiver with her public key. In general, a certificate issued from and digitally signed by a publicly trusted certificate authority (CA) guarantees public key authentication under the assumption that all users can get the public key of the CA to verify the validity of certificates, i.e., the signatures of the CA. The assumption is practical and widely used in the real world. However, if the CA is down by a system faults or destroyed by a terror or a war, the assumption can not be preserved. In this paper, we propose a simple and practical scheme for public key authentication without any trusted third party. The scheme basically uses a message authentication code (MAC) taking a short random value as a key to authenticate the exchanged public keys. Our scheme also can be adopted in the environments such as ad-hoc or ubiquitous in which it is hard to settle a publicly trusted authority.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationEmbedded and Ubiquitous Computing - EUC 2005 Workshops
Subtitle of host publicationUISW, NCUS, SecUbiq, USN, and TAUES, Proceedings
Pages926-935
Number of pages10
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2005
EventEUC 2005 Workshops: UISW, NCUS, SecUbiq, USN, and TAUES - Nagasaki, Japan
Duration: 2005 Dec 62005 Dec 9

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume3823 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Other

OtherEUC 2005 Workshops: UISW, NCUS, SecUbiq, USN, and TAUES
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityNagasaki
Period05/12/605/12/9

Keywords

  • Key Management and Authentication
  • Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)
  • Public-key Cryptography

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Computer Science(all)

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