Personal PKI for the smart device era.

Abstract

As people use an increasing number of smart devices for their everyday computing, it is surprising that these powerful, internet-enabled devices are rarely connected together to create personal networks. The webinos project is an attempt to make this possible so that resources can easily be shared between devices, regardless of the operating system or network they are using. However, increased connectivity raises a number of security and privacy issues, and in this paper we introduce a public key infrastructure designed to be suitable for personal computing across multiple devices. We recognize the need for our PKI to work on both mobile and home networks, use existing online user identities and take into consideration the different interaction styles found on smart devices in different form factors. We propose a set of principles for personal key infrastructures, describe our implementation and outline how it mitigates common threats and issues.

Citation

LYLE, J., PAVERD, A., KING-LACROIX, J., ATZENI, A., VIRJI, H., FLÉCHAIS, I. and FAILY, S. 2013. Personal PKI for the smart device era. In De Capitani di Vimercati, S. and Mitchell, C. (eds.) Public key infrastructures, services and applications: revised selected papers from the 9th European workshop on public key infrastructures, services and applications (EuroPKI 2012), 13-14 September 2012, Pisa, Italy. Lecture notes in computer science, 7868. Heidelberg: Springer [online], pages 69-84. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40012-4_5

• Conference Name: 9th European workshop on public key infrastructures, services and applications (EuroPKI 2012)
• Conference Location: Pisa, Italy
• Start Date: Sep 13, 2012
• End Date: Sep 14, 2012
• Acceptance Date: Sep 13, 2012
• Online Publication Date: Dec 31, 2013
• Publication Date: Dec 31, 2013
• Deposit Date: Dec 9, 2021
• Publicly Available Date: Dec 9, 2021
• Publisher: Springer
• Pages: 69-84
• Series Title: Lecture notes in computer science (LNCS)
• Series Number: 7868
• Series ISSN: 0302-9743 ; 1611-3349
• ISBN: 9783642400117 ; 9783642400124
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40012-4_5
• Keywords: Computer networks; Networked devices; Smart devices; Mobile devices; Personal computers; Personal devices; Access and authorisation; Systems security
• Public URL: https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/1446712