| Title | Turning Trust Around: Smart Contract-Assisted Public Key Infrastructure |
| Publication Type | Conference Paper |
| Year of Publication | 2018 |
| Authors | Ahmed, Abu Shohel, Aura, Tuomas |
| Conference Name | 2018 17th IEEE International Conference On Trust, Security And Privacy In Computing And Communications/ 12th IEEE International Conference On Big Data Science And Engineering (TrustCom/BigDataSE) |
| Keywords | blockchain, Browsers, certificate authority, certificate transparency, certification, contracts, CT, Decentralized Trust, digital signatures, dynamic trust management, dynamic trust network, dynamic trust state, Ecosystems, Human Behavior, Metrics, PKI, PKI Trust Models, policy, Protocols, pubcrawl, Public key, public key cryptography, Resiliency, Scalability, smart contract, smart contract-assisted PKI extension, smart contract-assisted public key infrastructure, trust experience, Trusted Computing |
| Abstract | In past, several Certificate Authority (CA) compromise and subsequent mis-issue of certificate raise the importance of certificate transparency and dynamic trust management for certificates. Certificate Transparency (CT) provides transparency for issued certificates, thus enabling corrective measure for a mis-issued certificate by a CA. However, CT and existing mechanisms cannot convey the dynamic trust state for a certificate. To address this weakness, we propose Smart Contract-assisted PKI (SCP) - a smart contract based PKI extension - to manage dynamic trust network for PKI. SCP enables distributed trust in PKI, provides a protocol for managing dynamic trust, assures trust state of a certificate, and provides a better trust experience for end-users. |
| DOI | 10.1109/TrustCom/BigDataSE.2018.00026 |
| Citation Key | ahmed_turning_2018 |
Turning Trust Around: Smart Contract-Assisted Public Key Infrastructure