Minimizing TTP's involvement in signature validation

Publication Type

Journal Article

Publication Date

1-2006

Abstract

A digital signature applied on a message could serve as irrefutable cryptographic evidence to prove its origin and integrity. However, evidence solely based on digital signatures may not enforce strong non-repudiation. Additional mechanisms are needed to make digital signatures as valid non-repudiation evidence in the settlement of possible disputes. Most of existing mechanisms for maintaining the validity of digital signatures rely on the supporting services from trusted third parties, e.g., time-stamping and certificate revocation. Obviously, this is less efficient for on-line transactions. In this paper, we propose two new schemes for validating digital signatures as non-repudiation evidence that minimize the trusted third party's involvement.

Discipline

Information Security

Research Areas

Information Security and Trust

Publication

International Journal of Information Security

Volume

5

Issue

1

First Page

37

Last Page

47

ISSN

1615-5262

Identifier

10.1007/s10207-005-0072-1

Publisher

Springer Verlag

Additional URL

http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10207-005-0072-1

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