Deployment of Delegated Certification Path Validation in Cloud for Mobile Business
Zhan Wang, Luning Xia, Jiwu Jing, Neng Gao · 2010
Mobile business is one of young promising e-commerce industries.In mobile business scenario, PKI and certifications have been the premier solution to secure mobile transactions.However, client devices with limited computing and storage resources have difficulties to discover and validate the certification path, since this process costs large computing and communication resources.In this paper, we focus on utilizing the distributed and resourceful features of cloud to provide flexible and traceable path validation services for mobile business.This service is compatible with current standard Delegated Certification Validation protocols.All mobile devices can make the validation requests to our "delegation cloud" from world-range locations and get a swift response, regardless how complex the certification path is.