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This chapter describes the Convergence security infrastructure. The core component for Convergence Security (CoSec) has a distributed architecture. It encompasses subcomponents on different computing platforms such as client computers and smart cards, application servers and peers. An essential feature of Co-Sec is the use of smart cards as a secure token. This Convergence token provides sensitive security functions on a tamper-resistant device. The chapter first introduces the concepts and the architecture of the security infrastructure. Based on a description of the basic cryptographic primitives, as well as of the advanced cryptographic schemes applied by the project, we describe the high-level security functions provided for the Convergence middleware and network layer.
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Huebner, T., Kohlos, A., Shrestha, A., Rust, C. (2014). The CONVERGENCE Security Infrastructure. In: Almeida, F., Andrade, M., Blefari Melazzi, N., Walker, R., Hussmann, H., Venieris, I. (eds) Enhancing the Internet with the CONVERGENCE System. Signals and Communication Technology. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5373-3_6
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