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DCANon: Towards Distributed Certification Authority (CA) with Non-fungible Token (NFT)

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Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA 2023)

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Abstract

Distributed applications rely on Certification Authorities (CAs) entities associated with a few institutions around the world. There are countless trusted institutions on the networks, e.g., universities, governments, banks, making effective use of CAs. Although largely used, the decentralized management of CAs is an administrative challenge. In this context, the joint emergence of digital ledgers and Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) compose a new opportunity to effectively decentralize single assets safely. Towards Distributed Certification Authority with Non-Fungible Token (DCANon) is a distributed Certification Authority (CA) built to trusted institutions and supported by Non-Fungible Token (NFT) concepts. DCANon changes the way revocation may be find, permitting that all consortium member crawler the blockchain for revoked certificates, independently from which CA this revocation occurs. A proof-of-concept prototype was implemented with Hyperledger Fabric demonstrating the benefits of DCANon.

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Notes

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    Available: https://ethereum.org/en/nft/.

  2. 2.

    Available: https://hyperledger-fabric.readthedocs.io/.

  3. 3.

    Available: https://docs.cardano.org/.

  4. 4.

    Available: https://tezos.com/.

  5. 5.

    Available: https://www.ibm.com/blockchain.

  6. 6.

    Available: https://hackmd.io/@okwme/cosmos-nft.

  7. 7.

    Available: https://ethereum.org/en/developers/docs/.

  8. 8.

    Available: https://digicert.com/kb/enabling-ocsp-stapling.htm.

  9. 9.

    Available: https://letsencrypt.org/docs/ct-logs/.

  10. 10.

    Available: https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/crlsets/.

  11. 11.

    Available: https://blog.mozilla.org/security/.

  12. 12.

    Available: https://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-X.509/.

  13. 13.

    Available: https://easy-rsa.readthedocs.io.

  14. 14.

    Available: https://developer.apple.com/support/D-U-N-S/.

  15. 15.

    Available: https://www.dnb.com/duns-number.html.

  16. 16.

    https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd.

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This work was funding by the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), the Santa Catarina State Research and Innovation Support Foundation (FAPESC), UDESC, and developed at LabP2D. This work received financial support from the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel - CAPES - Brazil (PROAP/AUXPE) 0093/2021.

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    Rafael Descio-Trineto, Maurício Pillon, Guilherme Koslovski & Charles Miers

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Descio-Trineto, R., Pillon, M., Koslovski, G., Miers, C. (2023). DCANon: Towards Distributed Certification Authority (CA) with Non-fungible Token (NFT). In: Barolli, L. (eds) Advanced Information Networking and Applications. AINA 2023. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 661. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-29056-5_26

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