The Future Internet: A World of Secret Shares

William J. Buchanan, David Lanc, Elochukwu Ukwandu, Lu Fan, Gordon Russell and Owen Lo
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William J. Buchanan: Centre for Distributed Systems and Security, Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh EH10 5DT, UK
David Lanc: Centre for Distributed Systems and Security, Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh EH10 5DT, UK
Elochukwu Ukwandu: Centre for Distributed Systems and Security, Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh EH10 5DT, UK
Lu Fan: Centre for Distributed Systems and Security, Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh EH10 5DT, UK
Gordon Russell: Centre for Distributed Systems and Security, Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh EH10 5DT, UK
Owen Lo: Centre for Distributed Systems and Security, Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh EH10 5DT, UK

Future Internet, 2015, vol. 7, issue 4, 1-20

Abstract: The Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) is crumbling, partially due to the lack of a strong understanding of how encryption actually works, but also due to weaknesses in its implementation. This paper outlines an Internet storage technique using secret sharing methods which could be used to overcome the problems inherent with PKI, while supporting new types of architectures incorporating such things as automated failover and break-glass data recovery. The paper outlines a novel architecture: SECRET, which supports a robust cloud-based infrastructure with in-built privacy and failover. In order to understand the performance overhead of SECRET, the paper outlines a range of experiments that investigate the overhead of this and other secret share methods.

Keywords: secret shares; PKI; cloud computing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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