Action Lines (2000 & 2001)
II.4.1 Technology building blocks for trust and security
- Objectives
- To develop and validate novel, scalable and interoperable technologies, mechanisms and architectures for trust and security in distributed organisations, services and underlying infrastructures.
- Focus
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- Development and validation of scalable and usable authentication infrastructures, including infrastructures with embedded electronic signature and/or bio-metric solutions. This also includes tools for lifecycle management of keys as well as interoperability of public and non-public key schemes.
- Development and validation of global security architectures aimed at providing an optimised balance between hardware and software while leveraging tamper-proof equipment, such as smart cards, and auditable protocols with strong non-repudiation properties.
- Development and validation of protocols and transactional models in support of emerging business organisations, processes and practices. Special emphasis is placed on electronic payments, irrespective of value, and on trustful rights management.
- Definition of novel standards and meta-languages to characterise, measure, and assess quality of service for trust and security management.
- Building technologies to empower users to consciously and effectively manage and negotiate their personal intellectual property rights and assets.
- Building technologies to empower users to consciously and effectively manage and negotiate their "personal rights" (i.e. privacy, confidentiality, etc.). This includes technologies that enable anonymous or pseudonymous access to information society applications and services, for example by minimising the generation of personal data.
- Develop and validate novel technologies and systems to prevent and fight abuses perpetrated via IST infrastructures and platforms with a particular emphasis on fraudulent and criminal activities.
- Type of Actions addressed
- RTD
- Links with WP99
- Recombines and builds on elements of WP99 ALs II.4.1, II.4.2 and II.4.3 reflecting the importance of Trust and Confidence issues.
