A countermeasure of fake root key installation using one-time hash chain

Lee Younggyo; Ahn Jeonghee; Kim Seungjoo; Won Dongho

A countermeasure of fake root key installation using one-time hash chain

Lee Younggyo, Ahn Jeonghee, Kim Seungjoo, Won Dongho

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Abstract

Adil Alsaid and Chris J. Mitchell proposed the possibility of fake root public key installation by an attacker in user's PC and showed its countermeasures in 2005. The root public keys are used to verify the certificates for applet providers. Therefore the insertion of false public keys allows arbitrary numbers of rogue application to be executed on a user's PC. We propose a protection method for installing fake root keys in a user's PC. The method uses the one-time hash chain based on NOVOMODO. In the proposal, as the computation costs and the storage amounts for hash chain are very small, the proposed method will not be a big load to the publisher of the browser, the applet provision agent and the user. The implementation of the method is simple and it offers convenient authentication of the root to the user. Therefore, the method can provide a intelligent and secure agent technique for the digital content distribution.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Agent and Multi-Agent Systems
Subtitle of host publication	Technologies and Applications - First KES International Symposium, KES-AMSTA 2007, Proceedings
Pages	1007-1016
Number of pages	10
Publication status	Published - 2007
Externally published	Yes
Event	1st KES International Symposium on Agent and Multi-Agent Systems - Technologies and Applications, KES-AMSTA 2007 - Wroclaw, Poland Duration: 2007 May 31 → 2007 Jun 1

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	4496 LNAI
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

Other

Other	1st KES International Symposium on Agent and Multi-Agent Systems - Technologies and Applications, KES-AMSTA 2007
Country	Poland
City	Wroclaw
Period	07/5/31 → 07/6/1

Keywords

Applet distribution agent
Applet provider
Hash chain
Publisher of the browser
Root public key
Web browser

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Theoretical Computer Science
Computer Science(all)

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Younggyo, L., Jeonghee, A., Seungjoo, K., & Dongho, W. (2007). A countermeasure of fake root key installation using one-time hash chain. In Agent and Multi-Agent Systems: Technologies and Applications - First KES International Symposium, KES-AMSTA 2007, Proceedings (pp. 1007-1016). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 4496 LNAI).

A countermeasure of fake root key installation using one-time hash chain. / Younggyo, Lee; Jeonghee, Ahn; Seungjoo, Kim; Dongho, Won.

Agent and Multi-Agent Systems: Technologies and Applications - First KES International Symposium, KES-AMSTA 2007, Proceedings. 2007. p. 1007-1016 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 4496 LNAI).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Younggyo, L, Jeonghee, A, Seungjoo, K & Dongho, W 2007, A countermeasure of fake root key installation using one-time hash chain. in Agent and Multi-Agent Systems: Technologies and Applications - First KES International Symposium, KES-AMSTA 2007, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 4496 LNAI, pp. 1007-1016, 1st KES International Symposium on Agent and Multi-Agent Systems - Technologies and Applications, KES-AMSTA 2007, Wroclaw, Poland, 07/5/31.

Younggyo L, Jeonghee A, Seungjoo K, Dongho W. A countermeasure of fake root key installation using one-time hash chain. In Agent and Multi-Agent Systems: Technologies and Applications - First KES International Symposium, KES-AMSTA 2007, Proceedings. 2007. p. 1007-1016. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

Younggyo, Lee ; Jeonghee, Ahn ; Seungjoo, Kim ; Dongho, Won. / A countermeasure of fake root key installation using one-time hash chain. Agent and Multi-Agent Systems: Technologies and Applications - First KES International Symposium, KES-AMSTA 2007, Proceedings. 2007. pp. 1007-1016 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

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