A scalable and secure cryptographic service

  • Authors:
  • Shouhuai Xu;Ravi Sandhu

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at San Antonio;Institute for Cyber-Security Research, University of Texas at San Antonio

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 21st annual IFIP WG 11.3 working conference on Data and applications security
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

In this paper we present the design of a scalable and secure cryptographic service that can be adopted to support large-scale networked systems, which may require strong authentication from a large population of users. Since the users may not be able to adequately protect their cryptographic credentials, our service leverages some better protected servers to help fulfill such authentication needs. Compared with previous proposals, our service has the following features: (1) it incorporates a 3-factor authentication mechanism, which facilitates compromise detection; (2) it supports immediate revocation of a cryptographic functionality in question; (3) the damage due to the compromise of a server is contained; (4) it is scalable and highly available.