Title: Providing advanced authentication services in IPv6 muti-domain scenarios

Authors: Gabriel Lopez Millan, Felix J. Garcia Clemente, Manuel Gil Perez, Gregorio Martinez Perez, Antonio F. Gomez Skarmeta

Addresses: Departamento de Ingenieria de la Informacion y las Comunicaciones, University of Murcia, 30.071 Murcia, Spain. ' Departamento de Ingenieria de la Informacion y las Comunicaciones, University of Murcia, 30.071 Murcia, Spain. ' Departamento de Ingenieria de la Informacion y las Comunicaciones, University of Murcia, 30.071 Murcia, Spain. ' Departamento de Ingenieria de la Informacion y las Comunicaciones, University of Murcia, 30.071 Murcia, Spain. ' Departamento de Ingenieria de la Informacion y las Comunicaciones, University of Murcia, 30.071 Murcia, Spain

Abstract: To enable and promote security services in IPv6 networks, like end-to-end security, AAA, HTTP or DNSsec services, or VPN networks, it is required to offer the public key services required by the involved protocols. This is the main motivation of the research work presented in this paper where the most relevant design and implementation issues related with the deployment of PKI authentication services in multi-domain IPv6 scenarios are presented.

Keywords: authentication services; IPv6; PKI; multi-domain communication; cross-certification; bridge CA; public key infrastructure; security.

DOI: 10.1504/IJIPT.2005.008042

International Journal of Internet Protocol Technology, 2005 Vol.1 No.2, pp.75 - 85

Published online: 10 Nov 2005 *

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