Towards a Smart Contract-Based, Decentralized, Public-Key Infrastructure

Christos Patsonakis; Katerina Samari; Mema Roussopoulos; Aggelos Kiayias

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-02641-7_14

Towards a Smart Contract-Based, Decentralized, Public-Key Infrastructure

Christos Patsonakis, Katerina Samari, Mema Roussopoulos, Aggelos Kiayias

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Abstract

Public-key infrastructures (PKIs) are an integral part of the security foundations of digital communications. Their widespread deployment has allowed the growth of important applications, such as, internet banking and e-commerce. Centralized PKIs (CPKIs) rely on a hierarchy of trusted Certification Authorities (CAs) for issuing, distributing and managing the status of digital certificates, i.e., unforgeable data structures that attest to the authenticity of an entity's public key. Unfortunately, CPKI's have many downsides in terms of security and fault tolerance and there have been numerous security incidents throughout the years. Decentralized PKIs (DPKIs) were proposed to deal with these issues as they rely on multiple, independent nodes. Nevertheless, decentralization raises other concerns such as what are the incentives for the participating nodes to ensure the service's availability.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CANS 2017: Cryptology and Network Security
Editors	Srdjan Capkun, Sherman S. M. Chow
Place of Publication	Cham
Publisher	Springer
Pages	299-321
Number of pages	23
ISBN (Print)	978-3-030-02641-7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02641-7_14
Publication status	Published - 10 Nov 2018
Event	16th International Conference on Cryptology And Network Security - Hong Kong, Hong Kong Duration: 29 Nov 2017 → 2 Dec 2017 http://crypto.ie.cuhk.edu.hk/cans17/

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Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume	11261
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

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Conference	16th International Conference on Cryptology And Network Security
Abbreviated title	CANS 2017
Country/Territory	Hong Kong
City	Hong Kong
Period	29/11/17 → 2/12/17
Internet address	http://crypto.ie.cuhk.edu.hk/cans17/

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Patsonakis, C, Samari, K, Roussopoulos, M & Kiayias, A 2018, Towards a Smart Contract-Based, Decentralized, Public-Key Infrastructure. in S Capkun & SSM Chow (eds), CANS 2017: Cryptology and Network Security. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 11261, Springer, Cham, pp. 299-321, 16th International Conference on Cryptology And Network Security, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 29/11/17. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02641-7_14

Towards a Smart Contract-Based, Decentralized, Public-Key Infrastructure. / Patsonakis, Christos; Samari, Katerina; Roussopoulos, Mema et al.
CANS 2017: Cryptology and Network Security. ed. / Srdjan Capkun; Sherman S. M. Chow. Cham: Springer, 2018. p. 299-321 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 11261).

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