Achieving distributed trusted services

Author

Bamasak, O. ; Zhang, N.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Manchester Univ., UK

Volume

1

fYear

2004

fDate

5-7 April 2004

Firstpage

56

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Technology: Coding and Computing, 2004. Proceedings. ITCC 2004. International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2108-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ITCC.2004.1286426

Filename

1286426