Title
The Key Authority - Secure Key Management in Hierarchical Public Key Infrastructures
Abstract
We model a private key's life cycle as a finite state machine. The states are the key's phases of life and the transition functions describe tasks to be done with the key. Based on this we define and describe the key authority, a trust center module, which potentiates the easy enforcement of secure management of private keys in hierarchical public key infrastructures. This is done by assembling all trust center tasks concerning the crucial handling of private keys within one centralized module. As this module resides under full control of the trust center's carrier it can easily be protected by well-known organizational and technical measures.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2004
SAM '04: PROCEEDINGS OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SECURITY AND MANAGEMENT
certification authority,hierarchical trust,key management,PKI,public key infrastructure,trust center
DocType
Volume
ISSN
Conference
cs.CR/0410024
in Proceedings of the International Conference on Security and Management. CSREA Press, June 2004, pp. 89-93
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.96
6
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Alexander Wiesmaier18211.86
Marcus Lippert274.30
Vangelis Karatsiolis3104.37