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Trust Context Spaces: An Infrastructure for Pervasive Security in Context-Aware Environments

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The issue we have focused on in the broad area of security for Pervasive Computing is maintaining trust in an interactive environment. Our solution is based on the premise that computers and implicit interaction mechanisms must function in accordance with the explicit parameters of physical human-human interaction. Otherwise, this results in imbalances between the physical and virtual worlds, which leads to ”windows of vulnerability”. Our solution presented requires an infrastructure of pervasive and context sensing technology, to provide entity mapping, policy and trust management services. We also investigate generating cryptographic keys using the context available The underlying technology is based on the Smart-Its context sensing, computation and communications platform.

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    Philip Robinson & Michael Beigl

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  1. DFKI, Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3, D-66123, Saarbrücken, Germany

    Dieter Hutter

  2. Institute of Computer Science and Social Studies, Department of Telematics, Albert-Ludwig University Freiburg, Germany

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  3. German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, DFKI GmbH,  

    Werner Stephan

  4. Federal Office for Information Security (BSI), Godesberger Allee 185-189, 53175, Bonn, Germany

    Markus Ullmann

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Robinson, P., Beigl, M. (2004). Trust Context Spaces: An Infrastructure for Pervasive Security in Context-Aware Environments. In: Hutter, D., Müller, G., Stephan, W., Ullmann, M. (eds) Security in Pervasive Computing. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2802. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39881-3_15

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