PB-PKI: A Privacy-aware Blockchain-based PKI

Louise Axon, Michael Goldsmith

2017

Abstract

Conventional public-key infrastructure (PKI) designs using certificate authorities and web-of-trust are not optimal and have security flaws. The properties afforded by the Bitcoin blockchain are a natural solution to some of the problems with PKI - in particular, certificate transparency and elimination of single points-offailure. Proposed blockchain-based PKI designs are built as public ledgers linking identity with public key, providing no privacy. We consider cases requiring privacy-aware PKIs, which do not link identity with public key. We show that blockchain technology can be used to construct a privacy-aware PKI while eliminating some of the problems of conventional PKI, and present PB-PKI, a privacy-aware blockchain-based PKI.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Axon L. and Goldsmith M. (2017). PB-PKI: A Privacy-aware Blockchain-based PKI . In Proceedings of the 14th International Joint Conference on e-Business and Telecommunications - Volume 6: SECRYPT, (ICETE 2017) ISBN 978-989-758-259-2, pages 311-318. DOI: 10.5220/0006419203110318

in Bibtex Style

@conference{secrypt17,
author={Louise Axon and Michael Goldsmith},
title={PB-PKI: A Privacy-aware Blockchain-based PKI},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 14th International Joint Conference on e-Business and Telecommunications - Volume 6: SECRYPT, (ICETE 2017)},
year={2017},
pages={311-318},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006419203110318},
isbn={978-989-758-259-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 14th International Joint Conference on e-Business and Telecommunications - Volume 6: SECRYPT, (ICETE 2017)
TI - PB-PKI: A Privacy-aware Blockchain-based PKI
SN - 978-989-758-259-2
AU - Axon L.
AU - Goldsmith M.
PY - 2017
SP - 311
EP - 318
DO - 10.5220/0006419203110318