User Requirements of Trusted Third Parties in Europe

Dimitrios Lekkas, Sokratis Katsikas, Diomidis Spinellis

1999 · 15 citations · 0 references

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Abstract

: We review the Public Key Infrastructure in Europe as outlined in various INFOSEC and ACTS projects. The objective is to specify an abstract reference model for the PKI as a combination of the results of various European projects, which is scaleable, based on standards and flexible across different domains, geographical areas and business sectors. The user requirements in various business domains, such as health, transport and public information systems are extracted and highlighted. The user needs are then used as the reference for the development of the services that a Trusted Third Party must offer to its users and consequently they will be the base for # In Simone Fisher-Hbner, Gerald Quirchmayr, and Louise Yngstrm, editors, User Identification & Privacy Protection: Applications in Public Administration & Electronic Commerce, pages 229-242, Kista, Sweden, June 1999. IFIP WG 8.5 and WS 9.6. This is a machine-readable rendering of a working paper draft that led to a publi...