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Eliminating Counterevidence with Applications to Accountable Certificate Management (2002)
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| Venue: | Journal of Computer Security |
| Citations: | 34 - 3 self |
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@ARTICLE{Buldas02eliminatingcounterevidence,
author = {Ahto Buldas and Peeter Laud and Helger Lipmaa},
title = {Eliminating Counterevidence with Applications to Accountable Certificate Management},
journal = {Journal of Computer Security},
year = {2002},
volume = {10},
pages = {2002}
}
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Abstract
This paper presents a method to increase the accountability of certificate management by making it intractable for the certification authority (CA) to create contradictory statements about the validity of a certificate. The core of the method is a new primitive, undeniable attester, that allows someone to commit to some set S of bitstrings by publishing a short digest of S and to give attestations for any x that it is or is not a member of S. Such an attestation can be verified by obtaining in authenticated way the published digest and applying a verification algorithm to the triple of the bitstring, the attestation and the digest. The most important feature of this primitive is intractability of creating two contradictory proofs for the same candidate element x and digest. We give an efficient construction for undeniable attesters based on authenticated search trees. We show that the construction also applies to sets of more structured elements. We also show that undeniable attesters exist iff collision-resistant hash functions exist.
Keyphrases
certificate management undeniable attester authenticated search tree iff collision-resistant hash function important feature authenticated way structured element contradictory proof short digest new primitive contradictory statement candidate element verification algorithm certification authority efficient construction
