Research Article
Efficient User Revocation for Privacy-aware PKI
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/ICST.QSHINE2008.3824, author={Wei Ren and Kui Ren and Wenjing Lou and Yanchao Zhang}, title={Efficient User Revocation for Privacy-aware PKI}, proceedings={5th International ICST Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness}, publisher={ICST}, proceedings_a={QSHINE}, year={2010}, month={5}, keywords={Security Privacy PKI User Revocation}, doi={10.4108/ICST.QSHINE2008.3824} }
- Wei Ren
Kui Ren
Wenjing Lou
Yanchao Zhang
Year: 2010
Efficient User Revocation for Privacy-aware PKI
QSHINE
ICST
DOI: 10.4108/ICST.QSHINE2008.3824
Abstract
Privacy-aware Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) can maintain user access control and yet protect user privacy, which is envisioned as a promising technique in many emerging applications. To justify the applicability of privacy-aware PKI and optimize the performance, it is highly important to ensure the efficiency of handling user revocations. In practice, user revocation can be due to various predictable and unpredictable reasons, e.g., subscription expiration, network access policy violation, group changing, secret key exposure, etc. Both predictable and unpredictable reasons can happen concurrently, which makes the design of efficient user revocation mechanism challenging. In this paper, we study how to achieve optimized user revocation cost with respect to various revocation approaches. We also propose an advanced scheme Delta-RL that ensures an optimized overall performance in terms of communication, computation and storage, as justified by the extensive analysis.