A method for fast revocation of public key certificates and security capabilities

• Main Authors: BONEH, D., DING, Xuhua, Tsudik, Gene, WONG, Chi Ming
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2001
• Subjects: Information Security
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/1046; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/2045/viewcontent/sem.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

We present a new approach to fast certificate revocation centered around the concept of an on-line semi-trusted mediator (SEM). The use of a SEM in conjunction with a simple threshold variant of the RSA cryptosystem (mediated RSA) offers a number of practical advantages over current revocation techn...