| Author | Mai Anh Tho |
| Call Number | AIT Thesis no.CS-03-15 |
| Subject(s) | Public key cryptography
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| Note | A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science, School of Advanced Technologies |
| Publisher | Asian Institute of Technology |
| Series Statement | Thesis ; no. CS-03-15 |
| Abstract | With billions of users on the Internet, more interactions will occur between strangers, i.e., entities that have no pre-existing relationship and may not share a common security domain. Before strangers can conduct sensitive interactions, a sufficient level of mutual trust must be established. Traditional security approaches based on identity within the local security domain now become less efficient and reliable. Users are unknown at the time entering system so that the system can not store identities before and then it does not determine which set of roles is mapped to users. Automated trust establishment offers a solution to this practical problem. With automated trust establishment, strangers establish trust by exchanging digital certificates, the online analogues of paper certificates: digitally signed assertions by a certificate issuer about the certificate owner. Public-key certificate is one of the most important types of digital certificate, in which a public-key value is associated with a particular person or entity. A public-key certificate is signed using the issuer’s private key, and can be verified using the issuer’s public key. Now, the authorization, which consists of authentication based on trusted public-key certificates and direct assignment of a set of corresponding roles, is more secure. In this thesis, we study encryption, message digest, signature algorithm and public key certificates in terms of implementing a prototype of a system which issues public-key certificates. University of Agriculture and Forestry of Vietnam is chosen as a case study of such system and public-key certificates have instances as electronic degrees for graduated student of the university. |
| Year | 2003 |
| Corresponding Series Added Entry | Asian Institute of Technology. Thesis ; no. CS-03-15 |
| Type | Thesis |
| School | School of Advanced Technologies (SAT) |
| Department | Department of Information and Communications Technologies (DICT) |
| Academic Program/FoS | Computer Science (CS) |
| Chairperson(s) | Phan Minh Dung; |
| Examination Committee(s) | Vatcharaporn Esichaikul;Huynh Trung Luong; |
| Scholarship Donor(s) | University of Agriculture and Forestry of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam; |
| Degree | Thesis (M.Sc.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 2003 |