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Trust Without Identification

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Security in Pervasive Computing (SPC 2006)

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This extended abstract describes an alternative to trusting individual nodes in pervasive systems, which is to exploit the diversity of nodes in such systems to build application ensembles that are collectively trustworthy. These configurations are resilient to high levels of attack, and are not dependent on large pre-distribution key-spaces.

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  1. Department of Information Systems, Cranfield University, DCMT Shrivenham, Swindon, SN6 8LA, UK

    Howard Chivers

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of York, YO10 5DD, York, England

    John A. Clark

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of York, UK

    Richard F. Paige  & Fiona A. C. Polack  & 

  3. School of Computing, University of Teesside, Middlesbrough, UK

    Phillip J. Brooke

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Chivers, H. (2006). Trust Without Identification. In: Clark, J.A., Paige, R.F., Polack, F.A.C., Brooke, P.J. (eds) Security in Pervasive Computing. SPC 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3934. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11734666_1

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  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/11734666_1

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