- Title
- Toward distributed key management for offline authentication
- Creator
- Linklater, Gregory, Smith, Christian, Herbert, Alan, Irwin, Barry V W
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2018
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/430283
- Identifier
- vital:72680
- Identifier
- https://doi.org/10.1145/3278681.3278683
- Description
- Self-sovereign identity promises prospective users greater control, security, privacy, portability and overall greater convenience; however the immaturity of current distributed key management solutions results in general disregard of security advisories in favour of convenience and accessibility. This research proposes the use of intermediate certificates as a distributed key management solution. Intermediate certificates will be shown to allow multiple keys to authenticate to a single self-sovereign identity. Keys may be freely added to an identity without requiring a distributed ledger, any other third-party service or sharing private keys between devices. This research will also show that key rotation is a superior alternative to existing key recovery and escrow systems in helping users recover when their keys are lost or compromised. These features will allow remote credentials to be used to issuer, present and appraise remote attestations, without relying on a constant Internet connection.
- Format
- 9 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists, Linklater, G., Smith, C., Herbert, A. and Irwin, B., 2018, September. Toward distributed key management for offline authentication. In Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists (pp. 10-19), Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists volume 2018 number 1 10 19 2018 978-1-4503-6647-2
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Irwin, Barry V W (Prof)
RU Department of Computer Science
SDG 09. Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
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