Public Key Infrastructure and Trust - Information Security

Project Summary

This research aims for the short-term goal of building secure systems for law enforcement, as well as for the long-term goal of building systems whose design and construction reduces cybercrime. Addressing these problems required working with public-key infrastructure and attribute certificates, secure co processing and rights management. This project takes place within the broader scope of the Dartmouth Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) Lab. Our goal in the PKI Lab is to examine why PKI has not yet achieved its potential to enable robust expression of non-trivial, compound statements and beliefs, among entities that share no common secrets (something very important to the emerging distributed information world). In this project, leveraged by our additional funding, we jumpstarted a wide a range of projects pertaining to creating trusted information services in the real world.

• Project Lead: Sean Smith