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COCA: A secure distributed online certification authority
Abstract
COCA is a fault-tolerant and secure online certification authority that has been built and deployed both in a local area network and in the Internet. Extremely weak assumptions characterize environments in which COCA's protocols execute correctly: no assumption is made about execution speed and message delivery delays; channels are expected to exhibit only intermittent reliability; and with 3 t+ 1 COCA servers up to t may be faulty or compromised. COCA is the first system to integrate a Byzantine quorum system (used to achieve availability) with proactive recovery (used to defend against mobile adversaries which attack, compromise, and control one replica for a limited period of time before moving on to another). In addition to tackling problems associated with combining fault-tolerance and security, new proactive recovery protocols had to be developed. Experimental results give a quantitative evaluation for the cost and effectiveness of the protocols.
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- Authors
- Zhou, L., Schneider, F. B., & Van Renesse, R.
- Venue
- ACM Transactions on Computer Systems
- Published
- 2002-11
- Volume
- 20
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 329-368
- ISSN
- 0734-2071 (ISSN-L)
- 1557-7333
- OpenAlex
- W2095202767
- Cited by
- 278
- References
- 63
- FWCI
- 30.74
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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