SECURING WEB SERVICES USING IDENTITY-BASED ENCRYPTION (IBE)

Kari Anne Haaland, Chunming Rong

2006

Abstract

There is obvious need in cooperation between organizations. A recent trend is cooperation online, which result in the need of facilitating and managing cross-domain access to information and applications. It is important to utilize open standards that leverage existing technologies instead of replacing them. WS-Security, emitted by OASIS, defines standards on how to encode security tokens. In this paper we look at the use of Identity-based Encryption to leverage the exchange of security tokens, and how it can be implemented with WS-Security. Identity-based encryption offers, compared to the more conventional PKI, some additional advantages. For instance: databases maintaining public-key certificates are now longer necessary, this simplify key management, saves space, and eliminate the threat of attacks on these databases. It is also more suitable to grant collective access to groups, and is therefore suited for role based access control. We do not suggest Identity-based encryption as a replacement, but rather a complementary.

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in Harvard Style

Anne Haaland K. and Rong C. (2006). SECURING WEB SERVICES USING IDENTITY-BASED ENCRYPTION (IBE) . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Security and Cryptography - Volume 1: SECRYPT, (ICETE 2006) ISBN 978-972-8865-63-4, pages 413-418. DOI: 10.5220/0002103504130418

in Bibtex Style

@conference{secrypt06,
author={Kari Anne Haaland and Chunming Rong},
title={SECURING WEB SERVICES USING IDENTITY-BASED ENCRYPTION (IBE)},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Security and Cryptography - Volume 1: SECRYPT, (ICETE 2006)},
year={2006},
pages={413-418},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002103504130418},
isbn={978-972-8865-63-4},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Security and Cryptography - Volume 1: SECRYPT, (ICETE 2006)
TI - SECURING WEB SERVICES USING IDENTITY-BASED ENCRYPTION (IBE)
SN - 978-972-8865-63-4
AU - Anne Haaland K.
AU - Rong C.
PY - 2006
SP - 413
EP - 418
DO - 10.5220/0002103504130418