Paper 2001/039
Robust Software Tokens: Towards Securing a Digital Identity
Taekyoung Kwon
Abstract
This paper presents a new method called the robust software token for providing users with a stable and portable container in which a private key is stored and kept from adversaries, by simple software-only techniques. The proposed scheme is comparable with the related noble work such as a cryptographic camouflage scheme and a networked cryptographic device, but equipped with several advantages; (1) it uniquely supports both closed and open domains on public key infrastructures, (2) it supports more protocol setup, (3) and it is more efficient than the others. This paper handles the new RSA-based scheme only. The DSA-based scheme sharing the basic idea can be found in our previous work.
Note: We corrected and rearranged the proposed protocols. Also we clarified their propery. Explicit comparisons with the related noble approaches have been added.
Metadata
- Available format(s)
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PDF
- Publication info
- Published elsewhere. unpublished / firstly written in October 2000.
- Keywords
- Digital identitysoftware tokenprivate key managementpublic key infrastructureauthenticationdigital signature
- Contact author(s)
- tkwon @ sejong ac kr
- History
- 2001-11-03: last of 4 revisions
- 2001-05-15: received
- See all versions
- Short URL
- https://ia.cr/2001/039
- License
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CC BY
BibTeX
@misc{cryptoeprint:2001/039,
author = {Taekyoung Kwon},
title = {Robust Software Tokens: Towards Securing a Digital Identity},
howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2001/039},
year = {2001},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2001/039}
}
