El Kadhi, N. Karoui, S. Ghedira, K.

Certificates Chain Construction and

Validation

 in E-

Government System

 Comput. Eng. Dept., Ahlia Univ., Manama, Bahrain

This paper appears in:

 Developments in eSystems Engineering (DESE), 2009 Second International Conference on 

Issue Date:

 14-16 Dec. 2009

On page(s):

160 - 165

Location:

 Abu Dhabi

Print ISBN:

 978-1-4244-5401-3

INSPEC Accession Number:

11134238

Digital Object Identifier:

 10.1109/DeSE.2009.43

Date of Current Version:

 22 January 2010

ABSTRACT

E-Government can be defined as the use of information technologies for the delivery of government information and services to citizens. A governmental system must be very secure given the type of data exchanged. One of the most important security requirements is the authentication. Generally, the authentication service is provided by digital certificates. In order for two users to verify the authenticity of each other's message it is sufficient that there exists a valid certificates chain between them. In this work, we propose a new algorithm for certification chain construction and validation. Our construction method is based on an optimization method combined with a set of data mining metrics. Our validation method is established through a trust model we defined on the basis of some certifications rules. Our algorithm is adapted to the case of E-Government