Is hierarchical public-key certification the next target for hackers?

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 68-74

  Burmester, Mike ^a   Desmedt, Yvo G ^a,b  

^a Florida State University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTHENTICATION STRUCTURES; CERTIFICATION AUTHORITIES (CA);

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER CRIME; COSTS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT IDENTIFICATION SYSTEMS; INTERNET; PUBLIC KEY CRYPTOGRAPHY; RELIABILITY; SIGNAL RECEIVERS;

SECURITY OF DATA;

EID: 4243100597     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1012037.1012038     Document Type: Review

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