1st International IEEE Conference on Pervasive Services

Research Article

Morph Digital Signature A New Signature Framework for e-Documents in Pervasive Environments

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/PERSER.2007.4283914,
        author={ Rachid  Saadi and Jean  Marc Pierson and Lionel Brunie},
        title={Morph Digital Signature A New Signature Framework for e-Documents in Pervasive Environments},
        proceedings={1st International IEEE Conference on Pervasive Services},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={ICPS},
        year={2007},
        month={8},
        keywords={Authentication  Books  Data mining  Data security  Digital signatures  Information security  Privacy  Sections  Usability  XML},
        doi={10.1109/PERSER.2007.4283914}
    }
    
  • Rachid Saadi
    Jean Marc Pierson
    Lionel Brunie
    Year: 2007
    Morph Digital Signature A New Signature Framework for e-Documents in Pervasive Environments
    ICPS
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/PERSER.2007.4283914
Rachid Saadi1,*, Jean Marc Pierson2,*, Lionel Brunie1,*
  • 1: LIRIS lab, INSA de Lyon, France
  • 2: IRIT lab, University Paul Sabatier Toulouse, France.
*Contact email: rachid.saadi@liris.cnrs.fr, jean-marc.pierson@irit.fr, lionel.brunie@liris.cnrs.fr

Abstract

Nowadays the exchange of documents, information and data is fulfilled through an electronic format. This arises security problems (i.e. Authentication, non repudiation and privacy). In order to tackle some security issues, the digital signature allows to strongly identify the signatory and prevents against any signed content violation. However with the evolution of distributed systems, context adaptation appears as a very important constraint in ubiquitous environment especially in pervasive and mobile environments. Indeed the most of electronic documents (e.g. book, journal, certificate etc.) should be adapted to contextual situation. In this paper we propose a new signature mechanism (Morph Digital Signature). It enables any trusted entity to blind or to disclose only authorized parts from document according to user and environment constraints. We have also adapted the morph signature to certificate issues by providing a trust entity the ability to morph their certificates format according to pervasive context.