A Model to support SPKI Federations management through XKMS

Author

Wangham, Michelle ; De Mello, Emerson Ribeiro ; Fraga, Joni Da Silva ; Boger, Davi Da Silva

Author_Institution

Univ. of Santa Catarina, Florianopolis

fYear

2007

fDate

9-13 July 2007

Firstpage

338

Lastpage

345

Abstract

The purpose of the XML Key Management Specification (XKMS) is to facilitate the use of a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) by transferring the complexity associated with PKI to a trusted Web Service. Although this specification contains information on how compatibility with PKIs such as PGP and SPKI/SDSI can be reached, it is straight focused on X.509 PKI. This work uses XKMS to define a federated management model for SPKI/SDSI. In a web of SPKI Federations, the proposed model follows a peer-to-peer approach for discovering and establishing certificate chains. This model introduces a search algorithm and its effectiveness was verified through simulations.

Keywords

Web services; XML; formal specification; public key cryptography; PGP; SPKI federations management; SPKI/SDSI; Web service; World Wide Web; X.509 PKI; XKMS; XML key management specification; federated management model; public key infrastructure; Authorization; Automation; Certification; Information security; Peer to peer computing; Protocols; Public key; Scalability; Web services; XML;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Web Services, 2007. ICWS 2007. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Salt Lake City, UT

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2924-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICWS.2007.8

Filename

4279617