Wednesday, 19 November 2008
Semantic Digital Signatures
A shameless plug for issues that have occupied my (and my coauthors) thoughts as of late.
We discuss the need of addressing, in a uniform way, digital signatures with rich semantics, for enabling increased automation of signature processing. We present a scheme for combining digital signatures with the formal and extensible semantics of the Semantic Web, as a standard layer in applications using digital signatures. We introduce several constructions and processes towards realizing this end, a new class of attack against semantically enabled applications, and measures of avoiding this attack class. Finally, we simplify a few existing processes that use digital signatures by expressing them in terms of semantic signatures.
By: Daniela Bourges-Waldegg, Christian Hoertnagl, James Riordan
Comments especially welcome.
Posted by at 9:47 PM in Tools and Programming
