Proof-carrying authentication

  • Authors:
  • Andrew W. Appel;Edward W. Felten

  • Affiliations:
  • Secure Internet Programming Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ;Secure Internet Programming Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

  • Venue:
  • CCS '99 Proceedings of the 6th ACM conference on Computer and communications security
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

We have designed and implemented a general and powerful distributed authentication framework based on higher-order logic. Authentication frameworks — including Taos, SPKI, SDSI, and X.509 — have been explained using logic. We show that by starting with the logic, we can implement these frameworks, all in the same concise and efficient system. Because our logic has no decision procedure — although proof checking is simple — users of the framework must submit proofs with their requests.