Toward distributed key management for offline authentication

Linklater, Gregory; Smith, Christian; Herbert, Alan; Irwin, Barry V W

Title: Toward distributed key management for offline authentication
Creator: Linklater, Gregory
Creator: Smith, Christian
Creator: Herbert, Alan
Creator: Irwin, Barry V W
Subject: To be catalogued
Date Issued: 2018
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
Format: pdf
Language: English
Relation: Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists
Relation: 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)
Relation: 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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