Coin flipping is a cryptographic primitive in which two spatially separated players, who in principle do not trust each other, wish to establish a common random bit. If we limit ...
During the last years there have been a lot of proposals in the literature for systems that attempt to manage the process of trust establishment. However, the engineering details ...
Abstract - With the growth of the Internet and increased demand for Web Services has come a heightened need for scalable wide-area group communication systems. The need for trust i...
Kim Potter Kihlstrom, Robin Elliott, Kelsey Marshm...
Abstract. Distributed security models based on a ‘web of trust’ eliminate single points of failure and alleviate performance bottlenecks. However, such distributed approaches r...
Emerson Ribeiro de Mello, Aad P. A. van Moorsel, J...
In this paper we investigate the survivability of multilevel ad-hoc groups for critical operations through a case study. We aim to provide a formal trust framework for establishin...