Objective
The aim of ICE-TEL is to increase the trustworthiness of the Internet as used by industrial and academic research. The project will support security-enhanced applications by providing users with public key certification services in several European countries. It will also incorporate a security infrastructure and user platform to adapt and integrate the necessary tools and toolkits for incorporating public key-based security into applications as WWW, e-mail, electronic directories and multimedia conferencing. The three project applications selected for tools validation will involve secure communication between national computer emergency response teams and other network support groups, public administrations and protected access to electronic directories.
The aim of the ICE-TEL project is to offer solutions to the problem of security on the Internet as used by industrial and academic research. This will be achieved by support for the usage of secured applications where users need to be certified, by providing a large scale public key certification infrastructure in a number of European countries and by providing all the necessary technology components which allow the deployment . In particular, the project will:
- develop and deploy the necessary tools for both the provision of the security infrastructure and the support of users of the infrastructure for a variety of platforms (Unix, PC, Macintosh),
- develop and deploy security toolkits which allow to integrate public key based security services into virtually any application, and which make use of the security infrastructure,
- develop and deploy security enabled user services which immediately allow to use the certification infrastructure without further application integration,
- support the integration of security services into applications, and provide secure testbeds for applications.
Main validation of the applicability and usability of the tools will be in three selected applications as part of the project, and in other TELEMATICS APPLICATIONS-, ACTS- and ESPRIT-projects. The three selected applications are:
1. Secure communication between administrations and electronic request and delivery of documents in the region of Torino, coordinated within the EU-sponsored "Information Society Network",
2. Secure communication between national Computer Emergency Response Teams (CERTs) and other distributed network support groups,
3. Provision of a security enabled electronic Directory service for a large British research agency.
The project will take it's basis from existing security developments from earlier EU projects and with background technology from project partners and set up an initial certification infrastructure at the beginning of the project.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- natural sciences computer and information sciences internet
- natural sciences computer and information sciences computer security cryptography
- social sciences political sciences public administration
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64293 Darmstadt
Germany
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