TY - GEN
T1 - A countermeasure of fake root key installation using one-time hash chain
AU - Younggyo, Lee
AU - Jeonghee, Ahn
AU - Kim, Seung-Joo
AU - Dongho, Won
PY - 2007/12/1
Y1 - 2007/12/1
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Applet distribution agent
KW - Applet provider
KW - Hash chain
KW - Publisher of the browser
KW - Root public key
KW - Web browser
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:39649103197
SN - 9783540728290
VL - 4496 LNAI
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 1007
EP - 1016
BT - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
T2 - 1st KES International Symposium on Agent and Multi-Agent Systems - Technologies and Applications, KES-AMSTA 2007
Y2 - 31 May 2007 through 1 June 2007
ER -