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KeyNote: Trust Management for Public-Key Infrastructures

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Security Protocols (Security Protocols 1998)

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This paper discusses the rationale for designing a simple trust-management system for public-key infrastructures, called KeyNote. The motivating principles are expressibility, simplicity, and extensibility. We believe that none of the existing public-key infrastructure proposals provide as good a combination of these three factors.

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  1. AT&T Labs — Research, 180 Park Avenue, Florham Park, NJ, 07932, USA

    Matt Blaze & Joan Feigenbaum

  2. Distributed Systems Lab CIS Department, University of Pennsylvania, 200 S. 33rd Str., Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA

    Angelos D. Keromytis

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Computer Science Department, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, AL10 9AB, UK

    Bruce Christianson

  2. Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG, UK

    Bruno Crispo

  3. Department of Computer Science, University of Turin, Corso Svizzera 185, I-10149, Turin, Italy

    Bruno Crispo

  4. Harlow Laboratories, Nortel Networks, London Road, Harlow, Essex, CM17 9NA, UK

    William S. Harbison

  5. Centre for Communications Systems Research, University of Cambridge, 10 Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3DS, UK

    Michael Roe

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Blaze, M., Feigenbaum, J., Keromytis, A.D. (1998). KeyNote: Trust Management for Public-Key Infrastructures. In: Christianson, B., Crispo, B., Harbison, W.S., Roe, M. (eds) Security Protocols. Security Protocols 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1550. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-49135-X_9

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