SKIP-securing the Internet

  • Authors:
  • G. Caronni;H. Lubich;A. Aziz;T. Markson;R. Skrenta

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • WET-ICE '96 Proceedings of the 5th International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises (WET ICE'96)
  • Year:
  • 1996

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Abstract

Currently, two different approaches are being pursued for securing the Internet with respect to commercial use on a broad scale. The properties of these two approaches-application-coupled security vs. network-coupled security-are discussed and compared. We then focus on SKIP (Simple Key-management in the Internet Protocol) as an example of network-coupled security, and show how it can be used to provide easily upgradable 'plug & play' cryptographic security. Providing upgradable security is an ideal base for the employment of organically-growing security infrastructures, whose members still need to communicate with unsecured peers.