An Efficient Dynamic and Distributed RSA Accumulator Export

@article{citeulike:5917345, abstract = {We show how to use the RSA one-way accumulator to realize an efficient and dynamic authenticated dictionary, where untrusted directories provide cryptographically verifiable answers to membership queries on a set maintained by a trusted source. Our accumulator-based scheme for authenticated dictionaries supports efficient incremental updates of the underlying set by insertions and deletions of elements. Also, the user can optimally verify in constant time the authenticity of the answer provided by a directory with a simple and practical algorithm. We have also implemented this scheme and we give empirical results that can be used to determine the best strategy for systems implementation with respect to resources that are available. This work has applications to certificate revocation in public key infrastructure and end-to-end integrity of data collections published by third parties on the Internet.}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, author = {Goodrich, Michael T. and Tamassia, Roberto and Hasic, Jasminka}, citeulike-article-id = {5917345}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://arxiv.org/abs/0905.1307}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://arxiv.org/pdf/0905.1307}, day = {8}, eprint = {0905.1307}, keywords = {accumulators}, month = {May}, posted-at = {2009-10-09 19:52:57}, priority = {2}, title = {An Efficient Dynamic and Distributed RSA Accumulator}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/0905.1307}, year = {2009} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:5917345 L3 - citeulike-article-id:5917345 N2 - We show how to use the RSA one-way accumulator to realize an efficient and dynamic authenticated dictionary, where untrusted directories provide cryptographically verifiable answers to membership queries on a set maintained by a trusted source. Our accumulator-based scheme for authenticated dictionaries supports efficient incremental updates of the underlying set by insertions and deletions of elements. Also, the user can optimally verify in constant time the authenticity of the answer provided by a directory with a simple and practical algorithm. We have also implemented this scheme and we give empirical results that can be used to determine the best strategy for systems implementation with respect to resources that are available. This work has applications to certificate revocation in public key infrastructure and end-to-end integrity of data collections published by third parties on the Internet. TI - An Efficient Dynamic and Distributed RSA Accumulator KW - accumulators AU - Goodrich, Michael AU - Tamassia, Roberto AU - Hasic, Jasminka PY - 2009/May/08/ UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/0905.1307 ER -