Title
A Digital Document Flexible Sanitizing Scheme
Abstract
A digital signature disallows alteration of the document. Appropriate alterations, however, should be allowed for some signed documents in practical use because of security requirements other than the integrity of the document. For example, when administrative documents are disclosed, based on the information disclosure law, in such documents, sensitive information, such as privacy information or national secrets is masked in advance. If this procedure is applied using existing digital signature technologies, the original digital signature becomes invalid when part of the document is sanitized. This problem is called the digital document sanitization problem and digital document sanitization schemes have been proposed as a solution to this problem. However, these schemes have disadvantages, such as a lack of flexibility in selecting sanitization blocks or inability to detect illegal sanitization by the sanitizer. In the present paper, we propose a digitally signed document flexible sanitizing scheme (DDFS) that can answer requests for flexible changes in the sanitized sections of a document without compromising security.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1109/IIH-MSP.2006.7
IIH-MSP
Keywords
Field
DocType
illegal sanitization,existing digital signature technology,digital document sanitization scheme,signed document,digital signature disallows alteration,digital document sanitization problem,digital document flexible sanitizing,original digital signature,sanitization block,document flexible sanitizing scheme,administrative document,privacy,national security,internet,digital signature,digital signatures,business,random number generation,information security,government,signal processing
National security,Computer science,Computer security,Information security,Digital document,Digital signature,Information sensitivity,The Internet
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
0-7695-2745-0
2
0.46
References 
Authors
3
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Takanobu Masubuchi120.46
Mitsuyuki Takatsuka220.80
Ryoichi Sasaki32811.60