Development of a Key Recovery System for Recovery of Encrypted Data
Sangseung Kang, Shinyoung Lim, Jeong-Ho Ko, Eun-Ah Jun, Gang-soo Lee · 2001
Information systems, which support information security functions such as CALS and EC systems, should have cryptographic functions for information in order to storage and communicate securely. Additionally, including recovery of lost keys, lots of cryptographic keys should be securely managed. In this paper, we present some results of development of a key recovery system for recovery of encrypted data. The proposed system, in a type of key encapsulation approach, confirms to NIST's RKRP(Requirements for Key Recovery Products) that is a defecto international key recovery standard, as well as CC 2.0 that is a international security evaluation criteria. A message sender secretly choices two or more key recovery agents from a pool of key recovery agents. The key recovery information is generated by using the recovering key, random keys and public keys of the chosen agents. A message receiver can not know which key recovery agents are involved in his key recovery service. We have developed two versions of prototype of key recovery system such as C/Unix and Java/NT versions. Our systems can be used for recovery of communicating informations as well as storing informations, and as a new security service solution for electronic commerce service infrastructures.