Electronic mutation technology and secured identification

Abstract

With the increasing and intensive deployment of electronic units in modern systems, identification security becomes a crucial issue. One essential security weakness in our modern systems having huge number of units such as mobile and e-commerce systems is the difficulty of managing secured and provable-identities for all participating entities in the system. In other words a biological DNA-like identification mechanism is still missing. This paper is proposing a set of security requirements and proposes a technology resulting with DNA-like electronic identity called ldquoe-Mutationrdquo and correspondingly e-DNA. The e-DNA identity is a self-created identity which should be autonomously generated by any security-relevant entity in a system, such that it is even infeasible for the unit manufacturer to create the same identity. Cryptographic mechanisms are proposed showing possible real-world realization possibilities. Once DNA-like identity is made available in a system, a very solid traceable security system could be realized. Many legal and criminal issues in connection with mass public-commerce and mobile systems could probably be more easily resolved by using such information security means. The proposed e-Mutation system is initiated originally for e-commerce applications; however it appears to be of general interest for a wide range of modern security systems.