MAKI: A Multi-Agent Public Key Infrastructure

Arthur Baudet, Arthur Baudet, Oum-El-kheir Aktouf, Annabelle Mercier, Philippe Elbaz-Vincent

2023

Abstract

This paper presents a public key infrastructure for open multi-agent systems of embedded agents. These systems rely on agents autonomy and cooperation between heterogeneous systems to achieve common goals. They are very prone to attacks as they are confronted with unknown systems with unknown goals. We aim at securing the communications between agents to provide foundations for more advanced security solutions as well as allowing agents to communicate without the risk of their messages being tampered with. To do so, we deploy a key infrastructure taking advantage of the agents autonomy to allow authenticity and integrity checks and accountability of all interactions. The result of our approach is the Multi-Agent Key Infrastructure, a public key infrastructure leveraging and empowering a trust management system. Agents autonomously maintain a set of trusted certification authorities that deliver certificates to trusted agents and revoke intruders. This infrastructure paves the way to build more secure open decentralized systems of autonomous embedded systems. To make our solution general and adaptable to many situations, we only provide recommendations related to the cryptographic primitives to use and the inner details of the trust management system.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Baudet A., Aktouf O., Mercier A. and Elbaz-Vincent P. (2023). MAKI: A Multi-Agent Public Key Infrastructure. In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 3: ICAART, ISBN 978-989-758-623-1, pages 177-184. DOI: 10.5220/0011631800003393

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icaart23,
author={Arthur Baudet and Oum-El-kheir Aktouf and Annabelle Mercier and Philippe Elbaz-Vincent},
title={MAKI: A Multi-Agent Public Key Infrastructure},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 3: ICAART,},
year={2023},
pages={177-184},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0011631800003393},
isbn={978-989-758-623-1},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 3: ICAART,
TI - MAKI: A Multi-Agent Public Key Infrastructure
SN - 978-989-758-623-1
AU - Baudet A.
AU - Aktouf O.
AU - Mercier A.
AU - Elbaz-Vincent P.
PY - 2023
SP - 177
EP - 184
DO - 10.5220/0011631800003393