Distributed certified information access for mobile devices

Authors:
Aniello Del Sorbo;Clemente Galdi;Giuseppe Persiano
Affiliations:
Dipartimento di Informatica ed Applicazioni "R.M. Capocelli", Università degli Studi di Salerno, Fisciano, SA, Italy;Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche, Università degli Studi di Napoli "Federico II", Napoli, Italy;Dipartimento di Informatica ed Applicazioni "R.M. Capocelli", Università degli Studi di Salerno, Fisciano, SA, Italy
Venue:
WISTP'07 Proceedings of the 1st IFIP TC6 /WG8.8 /WG11.2 international conference on Information security theory and practices: smart cards, mobile and ubiquitous computing systems
Year:
2007

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Abstract

In this paper we describe a primitive, which we call, Certified Information Access, in which a database answers to a query by providing the information matching the query along with a proof that such information are consistent with the actual content of the database. We show that such a primitive can be securely implemented in a distributed fashion. Furthermore, we describe the design principles for a distributed architecture that would allow the use of this primitive on mobile devices.