Authors:
Dimitrios Zissis
;
Anastasia-Evangelia Papadopoulou
and
Dimitrios Lekkas
Affiliation:
University of The Aegean, Greece
Keyword(s):
Security, e-School, e-Government, Public Key Infrastructure, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, Shibboleth, Single Sign On, Identity management.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Applications
;
Artificial Intelligence
;
e-Business
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Government
;
Knowledge Management and Information Sharing
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Society, e-Business and e-Government
;
Symbolic Systems
;
Web Information Systems and Technologies
Abstract:
This paper presents a security infrastructure design which is implemented to ensure safety in the e-School initiative that can escalate to meet the requirements of the entire electronic government system. The e-School initiative offers a number of ways that increase the effectiveness of education, student involvement in the process and is an element of the e-Government effort in Greece. A combination of existing technologies comprises the security solution presented, including Public Key Infrastructure, Shibboleth, Smart cards and Lightweight Directory Access Protocol. In this system, Pki is responsible for binding a public key to an entity, Ldap is the repository of keys and certificates and SSO is a method of access control that enables a user to authenticate once and gain access to the resources of multiple independent web services.