Public Key Security Research Articles

Erratum

Points out that there is a growing trend to delivering more efficient and more effective products and services with fewer and fewer resources. This trend is reflected in both the commercial and government sectors. The Internet is being viewed as the vehicle that could resolve many of these business delivery challenges. With the advent of public key security and certification, the transition from current business delivery to future Internet‐based systems is now possible. Deals with how public key cryptography may be used for business applications in the future, and also considers the theoretical applications of public key technology and certification processes. Examples of current technical solutions will be addressed in a future paper.

Public key security systems [Guest Editor's Introduction

Presents the guest editorial for this issue of the publication.

Commercial security on the Internet

There is a growing trend to delivering more efficient and more effective products and services with fewer and fewer resources. This trend is reflected in both the commercial and government sectors. The Internet is being viewed as the vehicle that could resolve many of these business delivery challenges. With the advent of public key security and certification, the transition from current business delivery to future Internet‐based systems is now possible. Deals with how public key cryptography may be used for business applications in the future, and also considers the theoretical applications of public key technology and certification processes. Examples of current technical solutions will be addressed in a future paper.

Fully-fledged two-way public key authentication and key agreement for low-cost terminals

A new public-key protocol has been developed for key agreement and authentication. This protocol provides security comparable to the well known RSA public-key protocol, but with two orders of magnitude less on-line computation required on one side of the protocol. This advance can make public-key security economical for applications where one side of the interaction is a low-cost customer device, e.g. portable telephones, home banking terminals, or ‘smart cards’.