• DocumentCode
    802753
  • Title

    Key-spoofing attacks on nested signature blocks

  • Author

    Christianson, R. ; Low, M.R.

  • Author_Institution
    Div. of Comput. Sci., Hertfordshire Univ., Hatfield, UK
  • Volume
    31
  • Issue
    13
  • fYear
    1995
  • fDate
    6/22/1995 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    1043
  • Lastpage
    1044
  • Abstract
    For a given signature block and any other data, there exists a key which produces the same signature block. The threat that this poses to schemes which use nested signature blocks as pointers to other tokens is identified, using a theft-proof capability mechanism as an illustration. A modification to public key certificates is then proposed to eliminate this threat
  • Keywords
    public key cryptography; key-spoofing attacks; nested signature blocks; public key certificates; signature block; theft-proof capability mechanism;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electronics Letters
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0013-5194
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/el:19950719
  • Filename
    392697