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1999 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

Secure Communication in an Unknown Network Using Certificates

Authors : Mike Burmester, Yvo Desmedt

Published in: Advances in Cryptology - ASIACRYPT’99

Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

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We consider the problem of secure communication in a network with malicious (Byzantine) faults for which the trust graph, with vertices the processors and edges corresponding to certified public keys, is not known except possibly to the adversary. This scenario occurs in several models, as for example in survivability models in which the certifying authorities may be corrupted, or in networks which are being constructed in a decentralized way. We present a protocol that allows secure communication in this case, provided the trust graph is sufficiently connected.

Metadata
Title
Secure Communication in an Unknown Network Using Certificates
Authors
Mike Burmester
Yvo Desmedt
Copyright Year
1999
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-48000-6_22

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