Network security via private-key certificates

  • Authors:
  • Don Davis;Ralph Swick

  • Affiliations:
  • MIT Project Athena;MIT Project Athena

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review
  • Year:
  • 1990

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Abstract

We present some practical security protocols that use private-key encryption in the public-key style. Our system combines a new notion of private-key certificates, a simple key-translation protocol, and key-distribution. These certificates can be administered and used much as public-key certificates are, so that users can communicate securely while sharing neither an encryption key nor a network connection.