| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/L54295/01 |
| Title: |
INTELLIGENT COMPUTATION OF TRUST |
| Principal Investigator: |
Chadwick, Professor DW |
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| Department: |
Informatics Research Institute |
| Organisation: |
University of Salford |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
17 November 1997 |
Ends: |
16 January 2001 |
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145,227
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| EPSRC Research Topic Classifications: |
| Digital Signal Processing |
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Creative Industries |
| Information Technologies |
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The research proposes to semi-automate the building of trust relationships between remote users who use public key crytography for authentication. The question to be answered is Given this users public key certificate signed by some remote Certification Authority, how much can I trust it.Current procedures are manual, are usually carried out by the local security administrator, and are thereby time consuming and restrictive. The project aims to investigate the semantics of trust relationships and how these are built up in real life. This will lead to the definition of a Trust Quotient (cf. Intelligence Quotient), which is a measure of the trust that one can have in a remote CA, and hence in the users that it has certified. We will define a structured format for Certification Authority security policies, so that these can be transferred across a network to be passed and analysed. We will build an expert system that can compute Trust Quotients from CA security policies and from the personal imput of the user. Finally the software will retrieve corroborative information from the network as a means of dynamically auditing the CAs security policy, so as to check that the CA is actually abiding by its
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