DocumentCode :
2493415
Title :
A viable and sustainable key management approach for a national e-health environment
Author :
Shen, Pei-Yuan ; Liu, Vicky ; Caelli, William
Author_Institution :
Sci. & Eng. Fac., Queensland Univ. of Technol., Brisbane, QLD, Australia
fYear :
2012
fDate :
10-13 Oct. 2012
Firstpage :
347
Lastpage :
352
Abstract :
To protect the health information security, cryptography plays an important role to establish confidentiality, authentication, integrity and non-repudiation. Keys used for encryption/decryption and digital signing must be managed in a safe, secure, effective and efficient fashion. The certificate-based Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) scheme may seem to be a common way to support information security; however, so far, there is still a lack of successful large-scale certificate-based PKI deployment in the world. In addressing the limitations of the certificate-based PKI scheme, this paper proposes a non-certificate-based key management scheme for a national e-health implementation. The proposed scheme eliminates certificate management and complex certificate validation procedures while still maintaining security. It is also believed that this study will create a new dimension to the provision of security for the protection of health information in a national e-health environment.
Keywords :
data integrity; digital signatures; medical information systems; public key cryptography; certificate management procedures; certificate validation procedures; certificate-based PKI scheme; certificate-based public key infrastructure scheme; cryptography; decryption; digital signing; encryption; health information security protection; information authentication; information confidentiality; information integrity; information nonrepudiation; national e-health environment; noncertificate-based key management scheme; Authentication; Encryption; Medical services; Public key; Scalability; e-health security; e-health solutions; non-certificate-based public key cryptosystem;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
e-Health Networking, Applications and Services (Healthcom), 2012 IEEE 14th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Beijing
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-2039-0
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4577-2038-3
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/HealthCom.2012.6379434
Filename :
6379434
Link To Document :
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