Trust and authority are essential components that must be factored in designing and implementing a distributed access control mechanism for open environments. This paper presents ...
Smartcards are trusted personal devices designed to store and process confidential data, and to act as secure tokens for providing access to applications and services. Smartcards ...
We model a private key's life cycle as a finite state machine. The states are the key's phases of life and the transition functions describe tasks to be done with the key...
Alexander Wiesmaier, Marcus Lippert, Vangelis Kara...
Many reputation management systems have been developed under the assumption that each entity in the system will use a variant of the same scoring function. Much of the previous wo...
William Conner, Arun Iyengar, Thomas A. Mikalsen, ...