A Novel Blockchain-based Decentralized Multi-party Certificate Management Framework

Shalitha Wijethilaka; Awaneesh Kumar Yadav; An Braeken; Madhusanka Liyanage

doi:10.1109/TrustCom60117.2023.00186

A Novel Blockchain-based Decentralized Multi-party Certificate Management Framework

Shalitha Wijethilaka, Awaneesh Kumar Yadav, An Braeken, Madhusanka Liyanage

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Abstract

Digital certificates play a significant role in the current communication systems. However, with the limitations in the existing Certificate Management Frameworks (CMFs), such as single point of failure, the profound nature of existing certificates, and malicious Certificate Authorities (CAs), a novel framework is required to optimize certificate management. Even though blockchain is a popular approach in designing CMFs, they also failed to address all these limitations. There are no existing frameworks that distribute the functionality of the centralized CA to address these issues. Therefore, this paper proposes a blockchain-based, lightweight CMF while distributing the centralized certificate generation process among multiple parties. Certificate generation, validation, and revocation can be performed with our framework. We design the required secure communication protocols to deploy our framework in any blockchain. The proposed framework is implemented on top of a Hyperledger Fabric environment and performed a set of experiments to evaluate the performance of the framework. Also, a formal security analysis for the proposed communication protocols is provided using known security verification methods such as BAN logic and the Scyther tool.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings - 2023 IEEE 22nd International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications, TrustCom/BigDataSE/CSE/EUC/iSCI 2023
Editors	Jia Hu, Geyong Min, Guojun Wang
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	1361-1368
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Electronic)	9798350381993
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TrustCom60117.2023.00186
Publication status	Published - 2023
Event	22nd IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications, TrustCom 2023 - Exeter, United Kingdom Duration: 1 Nov 2023 → 3 Nov 2023

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Name	Proceedings - 2023 IEEE 22nd International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications, TrustCom/BigDataSE/CSE/EUC/iSCI 2023

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Conference	22nd IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications, TrustCom 2023
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Exeter
Period	1/11/23 → 3/11/23

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Funding Information:
This work has been partly supported by European Union under CONFIDENTIAL-6G (Grant No: 101096435), and Science Foundation Ireland under CONNECT phase 2 (Grant no. 13/RC/2077 P2) projects.

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Blockchain
Certificates
Public Key Infrastructure
Security

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Wijethilaka, S., Yadav, A. K., Braeken, A., & Liyanage, M. (2023). A Novel Blockchain-based Decentralized Multi-party Certificate Management Framework. In J. Hu, G. Min, & G. Wang (Eds.), Proceedings - 2023 IEEE 22nd International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications, TrustCom/BigDataSE/CSE/EUC/iSCI 2023 (pp. 1361-1368). (Proceedings - 2023 IEEE 22nd International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications, TrustCom/BigDataSE/CSE/EUC/iSCI 2023). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/TrustCom60117.2023.00186

Wijethilaka, Shalitha ; Yadav, Awaneesh Kumar ; Braeken, An et al. / A Novel Blockchain-based Decentralized Multi-party Certificate Management Framework. Proceedings - 2023 IEEE 22nd International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications, TrustCom/BigDataSE/CSE/EUC/iSCI 2023. editor / Jia Hu ; Geyong Min ; Guojun Wang. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2023. pp. 1361-1368 (Proceedings - 2023 IEEE 22nd International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications, TrustCom/BigDataSE/CSE/EUC/iSCI 2023).

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Wijethilaka, S, Yadav, AK, Braeken, A & Liyanage, M 2023, A Novel Blockchain-based Decentralized Multi-party Certificate Management Framework. in J Hu, G Min & G Wang (eds), Proceedings - 2023 IEEE 22nd International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications, TrustCom/BigDataSE/CSE/EUC/iSCI 2023. Proceedings - 2023 IEEE 22nd International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications, TrustCom/BigDataSE/CSE/EUC/iSCI 2023, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., pp. 1361-1368, 22nd IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications, TrustCom 2023, Exeter, United Kingdom, 1/11/23. https://doi.org/10.1109/TrustCom60117.2023.00186

A Novel Blockchain-based Decentralized Multi-party Certificate Management Framework. / Wijethilaka, Shalitha; Yadav, Awaneesh Kumar; Braeken, An et al.
Proceedings - 2023 IEEE 22nd International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications, TrustCom/BigDataSE/CSE/EUC/iSCI 2023. ed. / Jia Hu; Geyong Min; Guojun Wang. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2023. p. 1361-1368 (Proceedings - 2023 IEEE 22nd International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications, TrustCom/BigDataSE/CSE/EUC/iSCI 2023).

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Wijethilaka S, Yadav AK, Braeken A, Liyanage M. A Novel Blockchain-based Decentralized Multi-party Certificate Management Framework. In Hu J, Min G, Wang G, editors, Proceedings - 2023 IEEE 22nd International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications, TrustCom/BigDataSE/CSE/EUC/iSCI 2023. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. 2023. p. 1361-1368. (Proceedings - 2023 IEEE 22nd International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications, TrustCom/BigDataSE/CSE/EUC/iSCI 2023). doi: 10.1109/TrustCom60117.2023.00186

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