Trusting Testcases Using Blockchain-Based Repository Approach

Blockchain Based Access Control

Access Control systems are used in computer security to regulate the access to critical or valuable resources. The rights of subjects to access such resources are typically expressed through access control policies, which are evaluated at access request time against the current access context. This paper proposes a new approach based on blockchain technology to publish the policies expressing t...

Reimagining KYC Using Blockchain Technology

The Know Your Customer (KYC) process is an integral part of client onboarding and requires banks to validate and verify primary documents. The market today, though, is flooded with KYC utilities that help manage these documents and share them with multiple entities, but they provide little value addition. Blockchain technology, with its concept of distributed, time-stamped ledgers, can effectiv...

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....

Trusting Constitutions

Two explanations for the importance of trusting constitutions are offe-red : First, constitutions that convey trust towards citizens have posi-tive effects by fostering civic virtue. A crucial factor of a trusting con-stitution is the extent to which the citizens are allowed to actively par-ticipate in the political process. We present empirical evidence thatparticipation vi...

Trusting Emergence