Trustchain -- Trustworthy Decentralised Public Key Infrastructure for Digital Credentials
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| author | Hobson, Tim France, Lydia Greenbury, Sam Hare, Luke Wochner, Pamela |
| author_facet | Hobson, Tim France, Lydia Greenbury, Sam Hare, Luke Wochner, Pamela |
| contents | The sharing of public key information is central to the digital credential security model, but the existing Web PKI with its opaque Certification Authorities and synthetic attestations serves a very different purpose. We propose a new approach to decentralised public key infrastructure, designed for digital identity, in which connections between legal entities that are represented digitally correspond to genuine, pre-existing relationships between recognisable institutions. In this scenario, users can judge for themselves the level of trust they are willing to place in a given chain of attestations. Our proposal includes a novel mechanism for establishing a root of trust in a decentralised setting via independently-verifiable timestamping. We also present a reference implementation built on open networks, protocols and standards. The system has minimal setup costs and is freely available for any community to adopt as a digital public good. |
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| spellingShingle | Trustchain -- Trustworthy Decentralised Public Key Infrastructure for Digital Credentials Hobson, Tim France, Lydia Greenbury, Sam Hare, Luke Wochner, Pamela Cryptography and Security The sharing of public key information is central to the digital credential security model, but the existing Web PKI with its opaque Certification Authorities and synthetic attestations serves a very different purpose. We propose a new approach to decentralised public key infrastructure, designed for digital identity, in which connections between legal entities that are represented digitally correspond to genuine, pre-existing relationships between recognisable institutions. In this scenario, users can judge for themselves the level of trust they are willing to place in a given chain of attestations. Our proposal includes a novel mechanism for establishing a root of trust in a decentralised setting via independently-verifiable timestamping. We also present a reference implementation built on open networks, protocols and standards. The system has minimal setup costs and is freely available for any community to adopt as a digital public good. |
| title | Trustchain -- Trustworthy Decentralised Public Key Infrastructure for Digital Credentials |
| topic | Cryptography and Security |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.08533 |