A two-level time-stamping system

  • Authors:
  • Alban Gabillon;Jungsoo Byun

  • Affiliations:
  • Univ. de Toulon et du Var;Univ. de Toulon et du Var

  • Venue:
  • Sec '01 Proceedings of the 16th international conference on Information security: Trusted information: the new decade challenge
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

Time (---) Stamping is a cryptographic technique which allows us to prove that an electronic document existed at a certain point in time and that it has not been modified since then. Different time-stamping schemes have already been proposed. Most of them use the concept of trusted Time-stamping Authority (TSA). A TSA is in charge of time-stamping scheme using al Local Time-stamping System (LTS). The main idea can be summarised as follows: digests of the documents to be time-stamped are sent to a Local Time-stamping System (LTS) The LTS accumulates the digests into a round value using a round based protocol. The round value is then time-stamped by a trusted and official TSA. We show how this time-stamping scheme could be useful for an organisation such as a digital library or a company.