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An Approach to Trust Management Challenges for Critical Infrastructures

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Critical Information Infrastructures Security (CRITIS 2007)

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The diversity of the kinds of interactions between principals in distributed computing systems, especially critical infrastructures, has expanded rapidly in recent years. However, the state of the art in trust management is not yet sufficient to support this diversity of interactions. This paper presents a rationale and design for much richer trust management than is possible today. It presents a set of requirements for more generalized trust management and an analysis of their necessity. A new trust management framework is presented that supports dynamic and composable trust.

This research has been supported in part by grants CNS 05-24695 and CCR-0326006 from the US National Science Foundation.

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Dionysiou, I., Frincke, D., Bakken, D., Hauser, C. (2008). An Approach to Trust Management Challenges for Critical Infrastructures. In: Lopez, J., Hämmerli, B.M. (eds) Critical Information Infrastructures Security. CRITIS 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5141. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-89173-4_15

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