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Towards a Context-Aware WebID Certificate Creation Taking Individual Conditions and Trust Needs into Account

Type

Conference Paper

Year

2013

Authors

wild

markusast

gaedke

Research Area

Intelligent Information Management

Event

The 15th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services

Published in

Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services (iiWAS2013)

ISBN/ISSN

978-1-4503-2113-6

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Abstract

WebID is a new development of the W3C. As a universal identification mechanism, WebID enables users to authenticate through client certificates instead of username/password pairs. For creating such WebID certificates, there are different ways available. Each is characterized by several aspects that become important depending on a user's individual conditions and trust needs. Users must carefully consider these aspects on their own to find the most appropriate way for them. There is a risk that inexperienced users make wrong considerations, which affect their security and privacy. In this work, we propose an approach towards a context-aware WebID certificate creation taking individual conditions and trust needs into account. As a proof of concept, we apply the SWAC framework that facilitates JavaScript-based generation of WebID certificates on both client and server. We evaluate our approach and available methods including HTML5 keygen and native implementations using different devices and Web browsers.

Reference

Wild, Stefan; Ast, Markus; Gaedke, Martin: Towards a Context-Aware WebID Certificate Creation Taking Individual Conditions and Trust Needs into Account. Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services (iiWAS2013), pp. 532-541, 2013.



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