Title :
Achieving distributed trusted services
Author :
Bamasak, O. ; Zhang, N.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Manchester Univ., UK
Abstract :
A trusted third party (TTP) has been employed in many distributed applications to provide various services such as security and reliability. This paper presents an insight into distributing the trust among a set of hosts supporting distributed applications. It critically analyses the current work and suggests perspective solutions to the problem exhibited by using a single TTP, i.e. performance and security bottlenecks, in providing trust services in general and in agent-based threshold proxy sigcryption (ATPS) protocol proposed in [A Secure Method for Signature Delegation to Mobile Agents] in specific.
Keywords :
cryptography; message authentication; mobile agents; multi-agent systems; protocols; ATPS protocol; agent-based threshold proxy sigcryption; distributed applications; distributed trusted services; mobile agents; performance bottlenecks; reliability; security bottlenecks; signature delegation; trust distribution; trusted third party; Access protocols; Application software; Computer science; Computer security; Information security; Internet; Mobile agents; Performance analysis; Protection; Telecommunication traffic;
Conference_Titel :
Information Technology: Coding and Computing, 2004. Proceedings. ITCC 2004. International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2108-8
DOI :
10.1109/ITCC.2004.1286426
