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Protecting Secret Keys with Blind Computation Service

More and more secure symmetric key encryption algorithms with long keys are being developed and used. But, the threat is still near to us. All the attackers have to do is guessing the password of the user to make a brute force attack on the encrypted data, not the secret key. In this paper, we propose a blind computation service which can be used as a part of an encryption and decryption proced...

Secure Negotiation Approach for Share-Secret-Key of Kerberos Service

The generation and distribution of the shared secret-key in Kerberos protocol are a security infrastructure. In order to enhance the security of distributed applications based on Kerberos protocol, a scheme of the shared secret-key negotiation was put forward. The shared secret-key could be generated and distributed by the Diffie-Hellman algorithm. Negotiation parameters of communicating partie...

Custos: Increasing Security with Secret Storage as a Service

In the age of cloud computing, securely storing, tracking, and controlling access to digital “secrets” (e.g. private cryptographic keys, hashed passwords, etc) is a major challenge for developers, administrators, and end-users alike. Yet, the ability to securely store such secrets is critical to the security of the web-connected applications on which we rely. We believe many of the traditional ...

A Service-Oriented Information Sources Database for the Biological Sciences

Researchers in the biological sciences require access to a variety of information sources located in various places on different computer networks. In order to satisfy the information needs of a researcher, appropriate information sources must be selected and access to these information sources and the computing services supporting them must be provided in a way that does not distract the resea...

Data Service Infrastructure for the Social Sciences and Humanities, DASISH