— The Grid offers significant opportunities for performing wide area distributed computing, allowing multiple organizations to collaborate and build dynamic and flexible virtual ...
Public Key Infrastructures suffer from usability and security problems associated with the request for and secure management of end user credentials. Online credential repositorie...
In this paper, we present a framework for achieving anonymity and trust, two seemingly contradictory properties, in distributed systems. Our approach builds on webs of trust, a we...
Michael Backes, Stefan Lorenz, Matteo Maffei, Kim ...
This paper proposes a hybrid architecture for distributed virtual environments, utilizing servers alongside peer-to-peer components. Current research into peer-based systems seeks...
Emerging economic P2P applications share the common need for an efficient, secure payment mechanism. In this paper, we present PPay, a micropayment system that exploits unique cha...