Nowadays PKI(Public Key Infrastructure) is known as very general security infrastructure for establishment of secure internet environment. Many countries already established their Digital Signature Act and have designated several licensed CAs under th...
Nowadays PKI(Public Key Infrastructure) is known as very general security infrastructure for establishment of secure internet environment. Many countries already established their Digital Signature Act and have designated several licensed CAs under the law. Through such a PKI environment, many users already deployed PKI-enabled applications or are considering to do them. Nevertheless, in terms of general network environment's prospective, there is a critical problem should be solved relating for certificate status check and certification path validation.
Although lots of technologies relating to certificate verification issues have been developed and standardized, definitely exact and perfect solution did not develop yet. We propose an efficient certificate status check and certification path validation method for specially real-time based client/server environment with huge scale in Internet environment. The proposed system provides an outstanding efficiency and cost-effectiveness in viewpoint of relying party such as large-scaled server of a internet banking, and so on.
The concept of proposed scheme is that before a sender will send a digital signature to a recipient who is big server with lots of client, he/she contacts the VA(Validation Authority) server and gets some initial information from it. And then he/she receives a VC(Validation Certificate) with a result of checking certificate status and path validation. After received VC, he/she sends a digital signature made by him/her and VC to the target server. At that time, the target server, that is relying party, is no need to check the authenticity of the used certificate based on CRL, and so on. Instead of it, the server only checks the authenticity of the VC only using one-time hash operation.
By using the proposed scheme, the users can establish an efficient PKI enabled application and system for large-scaled real-time client/server system based on Internet. Through such the implementation, the relying party gets rid of a critical risk that could be happened in real-time client/server environment, and had bad influence on stable operation of the system.