A Flexible Role-based Secure Messaging Service: Exploiting IBE Technology for Privacy in Health Care

  • Authors:
  • Marco Casassa Mont;Pete Bramhall;Keith Harrison

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • DEXA '03 Proceedings of the 14th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

The management of private and confidentialinformation is a major problem for dynamicorganizations. Secure solutions are needed to exchangeconfidential documents, protect them againstunauthorised accesses and cope with changes of people'sroles and permissions. Traditional cryptographic systemsand PKI show their limitations, in terms of flexibility andmanageability.This paper describes an innovative technical solutionin the area of secure messaging that exploits Identifier-basedEncryption (IBE) technology. It illustrates theadvantages against a similar approach based ontraditional cryptography and PKI. It discusses a few openissues. Our main contribution is a practical solutionsbased on IBE technology. A secure messaging systembased on IBE has been fully implemented and it iscurrently used in a trial with a UK health serviceorganization.