DTKI : a new formalized PKI with verifiable trusted parties
- Submitting institution
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The University of Birmingham
- Unit of assessment
- 11 - Computer Science and Informatics
- Output identifier
- 43103618
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1093/comjnl/bxw039
- Title of journal
- The Computer Journal
- Article number
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- First page
- 1695
- Volume
- 59
- Issue
- 11
- ISSN
- 0010-4620
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- July
- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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2
- Research group(s)
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- Citation count
- 14
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- The paper efficiently solves the problem of monopolistic service providers in Google’s certificate transparency, which is a method for authenticating the public keys of web sites. This is significant because present-day monopolistic centralisation of such a crucial role is bad for society and unfair to competitors. The paper solves the problem by ensuring that every role is decentralised, except domain name allocation. The paper rigorously formalises and proves the security guarantees the system offers. Our paper is the first to articulate and address this problem, and has led to several follow-on papers proposing refinements to our solution.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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