SafeSlinger: An Easy-to-use and Secure Approach for Human Trust Establishment (2011)
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@MISC{Farb11safeslinger:an,
author = {Michael Farb and Manish Burman and Gurtej Singh Chandok and Jon McCune and Adrian Perrig},
title = {SafeSlinger: An Easy-to-use and Secure Approach for Human Trust Establishment },
year = {2011}
}
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Abstract
Users regularly experience a crisis of confidence on the Internet. Is that email truly originating from the claimed individual? Is that Facebook invitation indeed from that person or is it a fake page set up by an impersonator? These doubts are usually resolved through a leap of faith, expressing the desperation of users. To establish a secure basis for Internet communication, we propose SafeSlinger, a system leveraging the proliferation of smartphones to enable people to securely and privately exchange their public keys. Through the exchanged authentic public key, SafeSlinger establishes a secure channel offering secrecy and authenticity, which we use to support secure messaging and file exchange. Essentially, we support an abstraction to safely “sling” information from one device to another.
Keyphrases
human trust establishment public key entire contact entry safeslinger public key application public key secure messaging authentic public key trust establishment secure channel offering secrecy secure introduction facebook invitation secure basis user contact information internet communication file exchange fake page contact entry
