IBE Applied to Privacy

Casassa Mont, Marco ; Bramhall, Pete

HP Development Company

关键词: IBE;    identity management;    privacy;    confidentiality;    accountability;    access control;    timed release;   

RP-ID  :  HPL-2003-101

学科分类：计算机科学（综合）

美国|英语

来源: HP Labs

【 摘 要 】

Identifier-based Encryption (IBE) is an emerging cryptography schema. As it happens for new technologies, there are ongoing debates about its usefulness and best usage. This paper describes some practical applications of IBE, in the areas of confidentiality enforcement, privacy and identity management. These applications include: a service for timed release of confidential information; a secure role-based messaging service enforcing flexible privacy constraints; mechanisms to underpin an accountable management of identity and profile information. For each of the above applications we analyse the advantages provided by IBE against traditional cryptography and we discuss open issues. 13 Pages