Paper Info
Title
On secure and pseudonymous client-relationships with multiple servers
Abstract
This paper introduces a cryptographic engine, Janus, which assists clients in establishing and maintaining secure and pseudonymous relationships with multiple servers. The setting is such that clients reside on a particular subnet (e.g., corporate intranet, ISP) and the servers reside anywhere on the Internet. The Janus engine allows each client-server relationship to use either weak or strong authentication on each interaction. At the same time, each interaction preserves privacy by neither revealing a clients true identity (except for the subnet) nor the set of servers with which a particular client interacts. Furthermore, clients do not need any secure long-term memory, enabling scalability and mobility. The interaction model extends to allow servers to send data back to clients via e-mail at a later date. Hence, our results complement the functionality of current network anonymity tools and remailers. The paper also describes the design and implementation of the Lucent Personalized Web Assistant (LPWA), which is a practical system that provides secure and pseudonymous relations with multiple servers on the Internet. LPWA employs the Janus function to generate site-specific person聭, which consist of alias usernames, passwords, and e-mail addresses.
Year
DOI
Venue
1998
10.1145/330382.330386
ACM Trans. Inf. Syst. Secur.
Keywords
DocType
Volume
persistent relationship,particular client interacts,enabling scalability,janus function,privacy,secure long-term memory,Janus function,cryptographic engine,mailbox,pseudonym,current network anonymity tool,e-mail address,particular subnet,pseudonymous client-relationships,Janus engine,anonymity,corporate intranet,multiple server,clients true identity,client-server relationship,interaction model
Conference
2
Issue
Citations 
PageRank 
4
22
7.94
References 
Authors
22
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Eran Gabber1549112.28
Phillip B. Gibbons26863624.14
David M. Kristol319236.25
Yossi Matias43546468.47
Alain J. Mayer5913133.92