Title :
An Autonomous Decentralized Public Key Infrastructure
Author :
Coronado-García, Luis Carlos ; Pérez-Leguízamo, Carlos
Author_Institution :
Banco de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico
Abstract :
A main goal of a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) is the management of digital certificates in order to bind public keys with respective user identities assuring the uniqueness of these public keys. A PKI must guarantee the reliability of its services, assuring the timeliness of its responses and the continuity of the service despite of the growth in the number of users and the presence of hardware or software failures. In this paper we propose a model of a PKI based on a Autonomous Decentralized System (ADS) paradigm, which satisfies the requirements described above. As a result of this research, we have implemented such a solution and it provides its services already.
Keywords :
public key cryptography; ADS paradigm; autonomous decentralized public key infrastructure; autonomous decentralized system paradigm; digital certificate management; hardware failures; reliability; software failures; Availability; Computer architecture; Computers; Fault tolerance; Fault tolerant systems; Public key; Software; Autonomous Decentralized System; Fault-Tolerance; High Reliability; Public Key Cryptography; Public Key Infrastructure;
Conference_Titel :
Autonomous Decentralized Systems (ISADS), 2011 10th International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Tokyo & Hiroshima
Print_ISBN :
978-1-61284-213-4
DOI :
10.1109/ISADS.2011.60
