On Securely Scheduling a Meeting

Abstract When people want to schedule a meeting, their agendas must be compared to find a time suitable for all participants. At the same time, people want to keep their agendas private. This paper presents several approaches which intend to solve this contradiction. A custom-made protocol for secure meeting scheduling and a protocol based on secure distributed computing are discussed. The security properties and complexity of these protocols are compared. A trade-off between trust and bandwidth requirements is shown to be possible by implementing the protocols using mobile agents.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2001
• Where: SEC
• Authors: T. Herlea, Joris Claessens, Bart Preneel, Gregory Neven, Frank Piessens, Bart De Decker
• Keywords: Agendas, SEC 2001, SEC 2007, Secure Distributed Computing, Secure Meeting Scheduling