Position Offenses by Notary in Making Authentic Deed : Reviewing the Notary Responsibility

Blockchain-based TLS Notary Service

The Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol is a de facto standard of secure client-server communication on the Internet. Its security can be diminished by a variety of attacks that leverage on weaknesses in its design and implementations. An example of a major weakness is the public-key infrastructure (PKI) that TLS deploys, which is a weakest-link system and introduces hundreds of links (i.e....

The Personal Internetworked Notary and Guardian

In this paper, we propose a secure, distributed and scaleable infrastructure for a lifelong personal medical record system. We leverage on existing and widely available technologies, like the Web and public-key cryptography, to define an architecture that allows patients to exercise full control over their medical data. This is done without compromising patients' privacy and the ability of othe...

DDNFS: a Distributed Digital Notary File System

Safeguarding online communications using public key cryptography is a well-established practice today, but with the increasing reliance on “faceless”, solely online entities one of the core aspects of public key cryptography is becoming a substantial problem in practice: Who can we trust to introduce us to and vouch for some online party whose public key we see for the first time? Most existing...

Electronic Notary System and its Certification Mechanism

We have developed a prototype electronic notary system (CYNOS : CYber NOtary System). CYNOS proves facts by providing the evidence (notary token) of events and/or actions that could be used to solve disputes between entities. It is a signature-based system and uses various security techniques to enable the timely certification of entities and fair and highly reliable delivery. It also cooperate...

The Negligent Notary Public–Employee: Is His Employer Liable?