Attack-Resistant Trust Metrics for Public Key Certification Export

@inproceedings{levien1998avogato, abstract = {This paper investigates the role of trust metrics in attack-resistant public key certification. We present an analytical framework for understanding the effectiveness of trust metrics in resisting attacks, including a characterization of the space of possible attacks. Within this framework, we establish the theoretical best case for a trust metric. Finally, we present a practical trust metric based on network flow that meets this theoretical bound. 1}, author = {Levien, Raph and Aiken, Alexander}, booktitle = {7th USENIX Security Symposium}, citeulike-article-id = {3816821}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.39.9335}, keywords = {adversarial-ir, graph, trust}, pages = {229--242}, posted-at = {2008-12-22 10:38:04}, priority = {2}, title = {Attack-Resistant Trust Metrics for Public Key Certification}, url = {http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.39.9335}, year = {1998} }

TY - CONF ID - levien1998avogato L3 - citeulike-article-id:3816821 N2 - This paper investigates the role of trust metrics in attack-resistant public key certification. We present an analytical framework for understanding the effectiveness of trust metrics in resisting attacks, including a characterization of the space of possible attacks. Within this framework, we establish the theoretical best case for a trust metric. Finally, we present a practical trust metric based on network flow that meets this theoretical bound. 1 EP - 242 TI - Attack-Resistant Trust Metrics for Public Key Certification T2 - 7th USENIX Security Symposium SP - 229 KW - adversarial-ir KW - graph KW - trust AU - Levien, Raph AU - Aiken, Alexander PY - 1998/// UR - http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.39.9335 ER -