Working paper
Privacy-awareness in blockchain-based PKI
- Abstract:
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Conventional public key infrastructure (PKI) designs are not optimal and contain security flaws; there is much work underway in improving PKI. The properties given by the Bitcoin blockchain and its derivatives are a natural solution to some of the problems with PKI - in particular, certificate transparency and elimination of single points of failure. Recently-proposed blockchain PKI designs are built as public ledgers linking identity with public key, giving no provision of privacy. We consid...
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- Publication status:
- Not published
- Peer review status:
- Not peer reviewed
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Bibliographic Details
- Series:
- CDT Technical Paper
- Publication date:
- 2015-01-01
- Paper number:
- 21/15
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- Language:
- English
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- UUID:
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- Local pid:
- ora:12318
- Deposit date:
- 2015-10-20
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- Copyright holder:
- Axon, L
- Copyright date:
- 2015
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