Trust management for secure information flows

  • Authors:
  • Mudhakar Srivatsa;Shane Balfe;Kenneth G. Paterson;Pankaj Rohatgi

  • Affiliations:
  • IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, New York, NY, USA;Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, United Kingdom;Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, United Kingdom;IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, New York, NY, USA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 15th ACM conference on Computer and communications security
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

In both the commercial and defence sectors a compelling need is emerging for the rapid, yet secure, dissemination of information across traditional organisational boundaries. In this paper we present a novel trust management paradigm for securing pan-organisational information flows that aims to address the threat of information leakage. Our trust management system is built around an economic model and a trust-based encryption primitive wherein: (i) entities purchase a key from a Trust Authority (TA) which is bound to a voluntarily reported trust score r, (ii) information flows are encrypted such that a flow tagged with a recipient trust score R can be decrypted by the recipient only if it possesses the key corresponding to a voluntarily reported score r