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New SPKI-based network protocol
Dear all!
I'm glad to announce a new conditional access system network protocol
totally based on SPKI bare-bones certificates has been developed. This
network protocol has been designed and successfully developed in the
framework of the European Commission ACTS project OKAPI.
As major features we can list:
All network interchanges are represented as canonical s-expressions.
Provides privacy, integrity and authentication over all the actors.
Based on the Service provider - User scenario.
Network and application independent.
Suitable for data broadcasting.
Uses and exploits security features of public-key smart cards.
A kernel with an standard "C" API has been developed and will be
publicly available soon.
More information and in-depth details can be found at:
ftp://cenature.tele.ucl.ac.be/pub/OKAPI/Trials/SPKI/D19.doc
Comments, suggestions and questions are welcomed.
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Xavier Serret Avila
Universite Catholique de Louvain
Laboratoire de Telecommunications
Batiment Stevin
2, Place du Levant
B-1348 - Louvain La Neuve
mailto:serret@tele.ucl.ac.be Tel.: +32 - (0)10 - 478072
Fax : +32 - (0)10 - 472089
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