UTILIZING SOCIAL NETWORKING PLATFORMS TO SUPPORT PUBLIC KEY INFRASTRUCTURES

Volker Gruhn, Malte Hülder, Vincent Wolff-Marting

2007

Abstract

Although public key infrastructures (PKI) exist for quite a while already, neither hierarchical PKI based on Certification Authorities (CA) nor decentralized webs-of-trust have come to great popularity, particularly not in the private sector. In this paper we want to analyze some reasons for this development and propose possible solutions. The utilization of social networking platforms which have become popular by the so-called ”web 2.0”, may bridge the gap between webs-of-trust and social networks. Thus, the web-of-trust structure may also become more popular and more widely spread due to the better usability this combination provides. For example, key exchange and authentication of the key owners’ identities can be supported by extended means of social networking platforms.

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in Harvard Style

Gruhn V., Hülder M. and Wolff-Marting V. (2007). UTILIZING SOCIAL NETWORKING PLATFORMS TO SUPPORT PUBLIC KEY INFRASTRUCTURES . In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Security and Cryptography - Volume 1: SECRYPT, (ICETE 2007) ISBN 978-989-8111-12-8, pages 245-250. DOI: 10.5220/0002125902450250

in Bibtex Style

@conference{secrypt07,
author={Volker Gruhn and Malte Hülder and Vincent Wolff-Marting},
title={UTILIZING SOCIAL NETWORKING PLATFORMS TO SUPPORT PUBLIC KEY INFRASTRUCTURES},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Security and Cryptography - Volume 1: SECRYPT, (ICETE 2007)},
year={2007},
pages={245-250},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002125902450250},
isbn={978-989-8111-12-8},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Security and Cryptography - Volume 1: SECRYPT, (ICETE 2007)
TI - UTILIZING SOCIAL NETWORKING PLATFORMS TO SUPPORT PUBLIC KEY INFRASTRUCTURES
SN - 978-989-8111-12-8
AU - Gruhn V.
AU - Hülder M.
AU - Wolff-Marting V.
PY - 2007
SP - 245
EP - 250
DO - 10.5220/0002125902450250