Recent proposals using public logs have succeeded in making certificate management more transparent and verifiable. How- ever, those proposals involve a fixed set of authorities which create a monopoly, and they have heavy reliance on trusted parties that monitor the logs.
We propose a distributed transparent key infrastructure (DTKI), which greatly reduces the monopoly of service providers and removes the reliance on trusted parties. In addition, this paper formalises the public log data structure and provides a formal analysis of the security that DTKI guarantees.
Category / Keywords: public-key cryptography / PKI, certificate security Date: received 5 Aug 2014, withdrawn 14 Nov 2014 Contact author: jxy223 at cs bham ac uk Available format(s): (-- withdrawn --) Version: 20141114:110128 (All versions of this report) Short URL: ia.cr/2014/600 Discussion forum: Show discussion | Start new discussion