A new scheme for protecting master-key of data centre web server in online banking

  • Authors:
  • Cao Lai-Cheng;Liang Lei

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Computer and Communication, Lanzhou University of Technology, Lanzhou, China;School of Computer and Communication, Lanzhou University of Technology, Lanzhou, China

  • Venue:
  • WISM'10 Proceedings of the 2010 international conference on Web information systems and mining
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

The master-key is used to encrypt the operation-key, and the operation-key is applied to encrypt the transport-key, consequently safety protection of the master-key is security core in online banking system. A scheme to protect the master-key was presented. Using method of 3-out-4 key share and LaGrange formula, the shares of the master-key were distributed to one synthesizing card and four key servers. When the data centre web server needed the master-key, the synthesizing card firstly authenticated the legitimacy of the shares of randomly selected three key severs from the four by zero-knowledge proof technology, once the shares were modified and destroyed, rest shares could make up a group so that the system worked continuously. Then the synthesizing card synthesized the master-key based on the shares of those three key severs. Security analysis proves that this scheme makes the whole system to have fault-tolerant and error detection, and also shows no-information leakage and defending collusive attack.