TY - GEN
T1 - A hardware-secured credential repository for grid PKIs
AU - Lorch, Markus
AU - Basney, Jim
AU - Kafura, Dennis
PY - 2004/9/29
Y1 - 2004/9/29
N2 - Public Key Infrastructures suffer from usability and security problems associated with the request for and secure management of end user credentials. Online credential repositories provide mechanisms to ease these shortcomings but pose attractive targets for attacks due to the accumulation of credentials and the need for remote access to these credentials. Through the extension of an existing credential repository with a cryptographic co-processor for secure storage of credentials an increase in the security of the service can be achieved. This higher security permits the use of online credential repositories with a wide variety of certificates without violating certification authority regulations. Also, the improved performance afforded by hardware support improves the scalability of a centralized credential storage.
AB - Public Key Infrastructures suffer from usability and security problems associated with the request for and secure management of end user credentials. Online credential repositories provide mechanisms to ease these shortcomings but pose attractive targets for attacks due to the accumulation of credentials and the need for remote access to these credentials. Through the extension of an existing credential repository with a cryptographic co-processor for secure storage of credentials an increase in the security of the service can be achieved. This higher security permits the use of online credential repositories with a wide variety of certificates without violating certification authority regulations. Also, the improved performance afforded by hardware support improves the scalability of a centralized credential storage.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:4544267268
SN - 078038430X
SN - 9780780384309
T3 - 2004 IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid, CCGrid 2004
SP - 640
EP - 647
BT - 2004 IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid, CCGrid 2004
T2 - 2004 IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid, CCGrid 2004
Y2 - 19 April 2004 through 22 April 2004
ER -