Privacy, Trust and Identity in Pervasive Computing: A Review of Technical Challenges and Future Research Directions
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paper_title: Security in Pervasive Computing Calling for new Security Principles

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In this paper we elaborate on the challenges that come with pervasive computing for providing security that enables users to explore the new dimension of computing and communications and do not hinder them. The paper is structured as follows: We first sketch an ideal state which we believe is desirable to achieve. We argue that, in fact, the continuation of current security practices is not possible. We then show how we could achieve this ideal state in which security is not achieved by prohibiting everything not explicitly allowed, but by monitoring, evidence gathering and reconciliation.
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paper_title: Ubiquitous security for ubiquitous computing

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The potential for rapid and diverse interconnectivity through devices utilising heterogeneous communications interfaces has enabled a truly ubiquitous computing environment. However, this has resulted in equally ubiquitous security risks due principally to the number and complexity of services being run over such networks. As technology advances towards the realisation of a ubiquitous computing environment, what impact does this have on the traditional information security triangle, of preserving the confidentiality, integrity and availability of information? And how does this influence, future information security requirements, particularly in light of always-on business processes which require real-time information sharing? This paper describes research conducted into answering these questions. Emphasis is placed on the need for risk management, and how this may be achieved through context-based access control mechanisms and pro-active threat assessment techniques.
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paper_title: The Freiburg Privacy Diamond: An Attacker Model for a Mobile Computing Environment

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An attacker model is a pre-requisite to make statements on the properties of security mechanisms. However, in order to be adequate, an attacker model should fit to the class of the considered security mechanisms and to the (computing) environment. This paper introduces a new attacker model, called the Freiburg Privacy Diamond (FPD), to evaluate anonymity mechanisms with regard to mobility, especially device mobility. This model takes into account the conditions of mobile computing. The FPD enables the analyser to adjust the strength of the attacker in a fine grained way and dependent on the (computing) environment. 1 Motivation and Overview In a mobile computing environment information is processed on devices in constantly changing networks, where new devices join, others leave, thus changing the environment and the available services. A device may join a network automatically if the network is reachable through its radio interface. The operators and users of the other devices in this network may not be interested in protecting the security, especially protecting the privacy, of the user of this additional device. Many mechanisms to achieve anonymity have been proposed, most of them requiring access to a sophisticated anonymizing infrastructure. In the case of mobile computing implementation of these mechanisms may lead to high computional overhead and network load. Evaluation of these mechanisms is mostly concerned with showing that “perfect” anonymity can be achieved, and analyzing resistance against attacks. Using a analysis method that includes mobility, it is possible to derive anonymizing techniques that are better adapted to the needs of a mobile environment. In this paper such an analysis method is proposed. This paper is structured as follows: The next section defines anonymity and refers how Part of this work was supported by the Kolleg “Living in a Smart Environment” of the Gottlieb Daimlerand Carl Benz-Stiftung other authors measure anonymity. Section three describes two approaches to model an attacker.The privacy diamond is introduced and formalized in section four, as well as applied to some examples. The paper concludes with remarks on the adequacy of the privacy diamond as a model.
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paper_title: Privacy and trust issues with invisible computers

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A set of designer guidelines from the European Union offers the first step in building privacy-aware systems.
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paper_title: Capturing location-privacy preferences: quantifying accuracy and user-burden tradeoffs

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We present a 3-week user study in which we tracked the locations of 27 subjects and asked them to rate when, where, and with whom they would have been comfortable sharing their locations. The results of analysis conducted on over 7,500 h of data suggest that the user population represented by our subjects has rich location-privacy preferences, with a number of critical dimensions, including time of day, day of week, and location. We describe a methodology for quantifying the effects, in terms of accuracy and amount of information shared, of privacy-setting types with differing levels of complexity (e.g., setting types that allow users to specify location- and/or time-based rules). Using the detailed preferences we collected, we identify the best possible policy (or collection of rules granting access to one's location) for each subject and privacy-setting type. We measure the accuracy with which the resulting policies are able to capture our subjects' preferences under a variety of assumptions about the sensitivity of the information and user-burden tolerance. One practical implication of our results is that today's location-sharing applications may have failed to gain much traction due to their limited privacy settings, as they appear to be ineffective at capturing the preferences revealed by our study.
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paper_title: Privacy by Design - Principles of Privacy-Aware Ubiquitous Systems

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This paper tries to serve as an introductory reading to privacy issues in the field of ubiquitous computing. It develops six principles for guiding system design, based on a set of fair information practices common in most privacy legislation in use today: notice, choice and consent, proximity and locality, anonymity and pseudonymity, security, and access and recourse. A brief look at the history of privacy protection, its legal status, and its expected utility is provided as a background.
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paper_title: A Privacy Awareness System for Ubiquitous Computing Environments

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Protecting personal privacy is going to be a prime concern for the deployment of ubiquitous computing systems in the real world. With daunting Orwellian visions looming, it is easy to conclude that tamper-proof technical protection mechanisms such as strong anonymization and encryption are the only solutions to such privacy threats. However, we argue that such perfect protection for personal information will hardly be achievable, and propose instead to build systems that help others respect our personal privacy, enable us to be aware of our own privacy, and to rely on social and legal norms to protect us from the few wrongdoers. We introduce a privacy awareness system targeted at ubiquitous computing environments that allows data collectors to both announce and implement data usage policies, as well as providing data subjects with technical means to keep track of their personal information as it is stored, used, and possibly removed from the system. Even though such a system cannot guarantee our privacy, we believe that it can create a sense of accountability in a world of invisible services that we will be comfortable living in and interacting with.
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paper_title: Dynamic Privacy Management in Pervasive Sensor Networks

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This paper describes the design and implementation of a dynamic privacy management system aimed at enabling tangible privacy control and feedback in a pervasive sensor network. Our work began with the development of a potentially invasive sensor network (with high resolution video, audio, and motion tracking capabilities) featuring different interactive applications that created incentive for accepting this network as an extension of people's daily social space. A user study was then conducted to evaluate several privacy management approaches - an active badge system for both online and on-site control, on/off power switches for physically disabling the hardware, and touch screen input control. Results from a user study indicated that an active badge for on-site privacy control is the most preferable method among all provided options. We present a set of results that yield insight into the privacy/benefit tradeoff from various sensing capabilities in pervasive sensor networks and how privacy settings and user behavior relate in these environments.
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paper_title: Privacy through pseudonymity in user-adaptive systems

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User-adaptive applications cater to the needs of each individual computer user, taking for example users' interests, level of expertise, preferences, perceptual and motoric abilities, and the usage environment into account. Central user modeling servers collect and process the information about users that different user-adaptive systems require to personalize their user interaction.Adaptive systems are generally better able to cater to users the more data their user modeling systems collect and process about them. They therefore gather as much data as possible and "lay them in stock" for possible future usage. Moreover, data collection usually takes place without users' initiative and sometimes even without their awareness, in order not to cause distraction. Both is in conflict with users' privacy concerns that became manifest in numerous recent consumer polls, and with data protection laws and guidelines that call for parsimony, purpose-orientation, and user notification or user consent when personal data are collected and processed.This article discusses security requirements to guarantee privacy in user-adaptive systems and explores ways to keep users anonymous while fully preserving personalized interaction with them. User anonymization in personalized systems goes beyond current models in that not only users must remain anonymous, but also the user modeling system that maintains their personal data. Moreover, users' trust in anonymity can be expected to lead to more extensive and frank interaction, hence to more and better data about the user, and thus to better personalization. A reference model for pseudonymous and secure user modeling is presented that meets many of the proposed requirements.
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paper_title: An Identity Control Method considering Privacy

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With the complete introduction of the law for protecting personal information in April 2005, the needs concerning protection of privacy have become ever more demanding. Accordingly, in this paper, the authors propose an “identity control” method that can (i) set the disclosure level for revealing the real name and pseudonym from the anonym according to the receiver’s authority and (ii) select the real name, pseudonym or anonym according to the will of the sender.
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paper_title: Moving from Security to Distributed Trust in Ubiquitous Computing Environments

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Traditionally, security for stand-alone computers and small networks was handled by physical security and by logging into computers and domains. With open networks like the Internet and pervasive environments, issues concerning security and trust become crucial. There is no longer the physical aspect of security due to the distributed nature of the networks and the concept of user authentication to a domain is not possible. Imagine a scenario where a user, with a portable device, walking through a building, switches on the lights in the corridor and lowers the temperature of the room that he/she enters. This is an example of pervasive/ubiquitous environments that will soon be a reality. In these ubiquitous computing environments users expect to access resources and services anytime and anywhere, leading to serious security risks and problems with access control as these resources can now be accessed by almost anyone with a mobile device. Adding security to such open models is extremely difficult with problems at many levels. We can not assume an architecture with a central authority and access control is required for foreign users. The portable hand-held and embedded devices involved have severe limitations in their processing capabilities, memory capacities, software support and bandwidth characteristics. Moreover, there is currently a great deal of heterogeneity in the hardware and software environments and this is likely to continue for the foreseeable future. Finally, in such an open, heterogeneous, distributed environment there is a great likelihood that inconsistent interpretations will be made of the security information in different domains. Existing security infrastructures deal with authentication and access control. These mechanisms are inadequate for the increased flexibility required by distributed networks. We suggest enhancing security by the addition of trust, which is similar to the way security is handled in human societies. A person is trusted if someone we trust, says that the person can be trusted. In terms of distributed computing, a user is allowed to access a service or information, if the user has the access right to do so, or if the user has been delegated the ability by a trusted authority. Trust management can be viewed as developing of security policies, the assignment of credentials to entities, checking if the credentials fulfill the policy and the delegation of trust to third parties [8, 3]. We propose a lightweight solution for trust management that is applicable for the Internet, which we are tailoring for pervasive computing environments.
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paper_title: A Novel Trust-Based Authentication Scheme for Low-Resource Devices in Smart Environments

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Abstract In smart environments, pervasive computing contributes in improving daily life activities for dependent people by providing personalized services. Nevertheless, those environments do not guarantee a satisfactory level for protecting the user privacy and ensuring the trust between communicating entities. In this paper, we propose a trust evaluation model based on user past and present behavior. This model is associated to a lightweight authentication key agreement protocol (EC-SAKA). The aim is to enable the communicating entities to establish a level of trust and then succeed in a mutual authentication using a scheme suitable for low-resource devices in smart environments. Finally, we tested and implemented our scheme on Android mobile phones in a smart environment dedicated for handicapped people.
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paper_title: On Trust for Ubiquitous Computing

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As we move into a world of ubiquitous and pervasive computing, there is an increased interaction between people and smart devices, which have computing power. In such a world, computing power is moving from big desktops to very small and miniature devices and there is a seamless integration of computing power and day-to-day life. For such a world of computing, we believe that there is a need for a continuum of trust, which models the real world, as closely as possible. In other words, we need to capture the real world model of trust where entities (people and devices) trust each other to varying degrees and extents. Moreover, we believe that in the world of pervasive computing, an entity's physical context (which could be the location of the entity, or even a property like time) is an important factor in modeling trust (because of ad-hoc interactions). In other words, we need a unified model of trust relationship between entities, which captures both the needs of the traditional world of computing (where the continuum of trust is based on identity) and of the world of ubiquitous and pervasive computing (where the continuum of trust is based on identity, physical context or a combination of both). In this paper, we present a novel attribute vector calculus based approach for modeling the continuum of trust.
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paper_title: Trust-based security in pervasive computing environments

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Traditionally, stand-alone computers and small networks rely on user authentication and access control to provide security. These physical methods use system-based controls to verify the identity of a person or process, explicitly enabling or restricting the ability to use, change, or view a computer resource. However, these strategies are inadequate for the increased flexibility that distributed networks such as the Internet and pervasive computing environments require because such systems lack central control and their users are not all predetermined. Mobile users expect to access locally hosted resources and services anytime and anywhere, leading to serious security risks and access control problems. We propose a solution based on trust management that involves developing a security policy, assigning credentials to entities, verifying that the credentials fulfill the policy, delegating trust to third parties, and reasoning about users' access rights. This architecture is generally applicable to distributed systems but geared toward pervasive computing environments.
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paper_title: Trust-based model for privacy control in context aware systems

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In context-aware systems, there is a high demand on providing privacy solutions to users when they are interacting and exchanging personal information. Privacy in this context encompasses reasoning about trust and risk involved in interactions between users. Trust, therefore, controls the amount of information that can be revealed, and risk analysis allows us to evaluate the expected benefit that would motivate users to participate in these interactions. In this paper, we propose a trust-based model for privacy control in context-aware systems based on incorporating trust and risk. Through this approach, it is clear how to reason about trust and risk in designing and implementing context-aware systems that provide mechanisms to protect users' privacy. Our approach also includes experiential learning mechanisms from past observations in reaching better decisions in future interactions. The outlined model in this paper serves as an attempt to solve the concerns of privacy control in context-aware systems. To validate this model, we are currently applying it on a context-aware system that tracks users' location. We hope to report on the performance evaluation and the experience of implementation in the near future.
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paper_title: Supporting Dynamically Changing Authorizations in Pervasive Communication Systems

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In pervasive computing environments, changes in context may trigger changes in an individual's access permissions. We contend that existing access control frameworks do not provide the fine-grained revocation needed to enforce these changing authorizations. In this paper, we present an authorization framework, in the context of the Gaia OS for active spaces, which integrates context with authorization and provides fine-grained control over the enforcement of dynamically changing permissions using cryptographic mechanisms. Our design, implemented in middleware using distributed objects, addresses the limitations of traditional authorization frameworks and the specific access control needs of pervasive computing environments. As part of our proposed framework, we define cryptographic protocols that enforce access to the system's communication channels and provide secure delivery of messages. We also provide a proof of correctness of key agreement and freshness using the standard BAN deduction system.
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paper_title: Authentication for Pervasive Computing

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Key management is fundamental to communications security, and for security in pervasive computing sound key management is particularly difficult. However, sound key management itself depends critically on sound authentication. In this paper we review current notions of entity authentication and discuss why we believe these notions are unsuitable for the pervasive domain. We then present our views on how notions of authentication should be revised to address the challenges of the pervasive domain, and some of the new research problems that will arise. We end with some brief thoughts on how our revised notions may be implemented and some of the problems that may be encountered.
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paper_title: Secure ubiquitous computing based on entity recognition

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Ubiquitous computing cannot always use traditional enrolment schemes, especially in mobile ad-hoc networks (MANETs) and global computing infrastructures. In this extended abstract, we argue that entity recognition is more general than authentication and that ubiquitous computing environments benefit from the entity recognition approach. Entity recognition schemes do not always require an enrolment phase but rather a process where more or less attention is paid to surrounding entities depending on their estimated importance. Different applications may require different ways to recognise collaborators, so we propose a pluggable recognition module (PRM) as an interesting design approach in this area.
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paper_title: Ubiquitous security for ubiquitous computing

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The potential for rapid and diverse interconnectivity through devices utilising heterogeneous communications interfaces has enabled a truly ubiquitous computing environment. However, this has resulted in equally ubiquitous security risks due principally to the number and complexity of services being run over such networks. As technology advances towards the realisation of a ubiquitous computing environment, what impact does this have on the traditional information security triangle, of preserving the confidentiality, integrity and availability of information? And how does this influence, future information security requirements, particularly in light of always-on business processes which require real-time information sharing? This paper describes research conducted into answering these questions. Emphasis is placed on the need for risk management, and how this may be achieved through context-based access control mechanisms and pro-active threat assessment techniques.
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paper_title: Towards Security and Privacy for Pervasive Computing

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Pervasive computing environments with their interconnected devices and services promise seamless integration of digital infrastructure into our everyday lives. While the focus of current research is on how to connect new devices and build useful applications to improve functionality, the security and privacy issues in such environments have not been explored in any depth. While traditional distributed computing research attempts to abstract away physical location of users and resources, pervasive computing applications often exploit physical location and other context information about users and resources to enhance the user experience. The need to share resources and collaborate introduces new types of interaction among users as well as between the virtual and physical worlds. In this context, it becomes difficult to separate physical security from digital security. Existing policies and mechanisms may not provide adequate guarantees to deal with new exposures and vulnerabilities introduced by the pervasive computing paradigm. In this paper we explore the challenges for building security and privacy into pervasive computing environments, describe our prototype implementation that addresses some of these issues, and propose some directions for future work.
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paper_title: Context and location-aware encryption for pervasive computing environments

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Pervasive computing promises to revolutionize computing, empower mobile users, and enhance mobility, customizability and adaptability of computing environments. Intrinsic to the notion of such environments is the capturing of location and context information. Context awareness and validation enables significant functionality to pervasive computing applications, users, resources and the ways they interact. Much of this functionality depends on validating context information and using it for granting access to data or resources. In this paper we propose an encryption and access control framework that uses both context and identity to determine whether an entity or a group of entities may access protected services, data, devices, and other resources. We assume that the resources are context-sensitive, thus requiring the requesting entity to be under a specific context before it is able to access the resource or decrypt the information. Our approach is unique in the way that we decouple context from identity, which adds extra security, facilitates value-added services, and enables efficient key management for group communication.
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paper_title: An authentication protocol for pervasive computing

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Authentication protocols are essential for security in many systems. However, authentication protocols are error-prone and difficult to design. In pervasive computing, the inherent characteristics such as mobility and restricted resources make it even harder to design suitable authentication protocols. In this paper we propose an authentication protocol to solve an open problem in pervasive computing, that is secure use of public information utilities without accessing a trusted third party (TTP). Our solution not only provides authentication, but also establishes a secure communication channel between the user and the service provider without the participation of TTP. The authentication protocol can be built with any secure symmetric and asymmetric cryptographic algorithm. We show the protocol can resist passive and active attacks. We also discuss how the protocol can be extended to an applicable scheme with payment support.
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paper_title: Moving from Security to Distributed Trust in Ubiquitous Computing Environments

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Traditionally, security for stand-alone computers and small networks was handled by physical security and by logging into computers and domains. With open networks like the Internet and pervasive environments, issues concerning security and trust become crucial. There is no longer the physical aspect of security due to the distributed nature of the networks and the concept of user authentication to a domain is not possible. Imagine a scenario where a user, with a portable device, walking through a building, switches on the lights in the corridor and lowers the temperature of the room that he/she enters. This is an example of pervasive/ubiquitous environments that will soon be a reality. In these ubiquitous computing environments users expect to access resources and services anytime and anywhere, leading to serious security risks and problems with access control as these resources can now be accessed by almost anyone with a mobile device. Adding security to such open models is extremely difficult with problems at many levels. We can not assume an architecture with a central authority and access control is required for foreign users. The portable hand-held and embedded devices involved have severe limitations in their processing capabilities, memory capacities, software support and bandwidth characteristics. Moreover, there is currently a great deal of heterogeneity in the hardware and software environments and this is likely to continue for the foreseeable future. Finally, in such an open, heterogeneous, distributed environment there is a great likelihood that inconsistent interpretations will be made of the security information in different domains. Existing security infrastructures deal with authentication and access control. These mechanisms are inadequate for the increased flexibility required by distributed networks. We suggest enhancing security by the addition of trust, which is similar to the way security is handled in human societies. A person is trusted if someone we trust, says that the person can be trusted. In terms of distributed computing, a user is allowed to access a service or information, if the user has the access right to do so, or if the user has been delegated the ability by a trusted authority. Trust management can be viewed as developing of security policies, the assignment of credentials to entities, checking if the credentials fulfill the policy and the delegation of trust to third parties [8, 3]. We propose a lightweight solution for trust management that is applicable for the Internet, which we are tailoring for pervasive computing environments.
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paper_title: Privacy by Design - Principles of Privacy-Aware Ubiquitous Systems

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This paper tries to serve as an introductory reading to privacy issues in the field of ubiquitous computing. It develops six principles for guiding system design, based on a set of fair information practices common in most privacy legislation in use today: notice, choice and consent, proximity and locality, anonymity and pseudonymity, security, and access and recourse. A brief look at the history of privacy protection, its legal status, and its expected utility is provided as a background.
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paper_title: On Trust for Ubiquitous Computing

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As we move into a world of ubiquitous and pervasive computing, there is an increased interaction between people and smart devices, which have computing power. In such a world, computing power is moving from big desktops to very small and miniature devices and there is a seamless integration of computing power and day-to-day life. For such a world of computing, we believe that there is a need for a continuum of trust, which models the real world, as closely as possible. In other words, we need to capture the real world model of trust where entities (people and devices) trust each other to varying degrees and extents. Moreover, we believe that in the world of pervasive computing, an entity's physical context (which could be the location of the entity, or even a property like time) is an important factor in modeling trust (because of ad-hoc interactions). In other words, we need a unified model of trust relationship between entities, which captures both the needs of the traditional world of computing (where the continuum of trust is based on identity) and of the world of ubiquitous and pervasive computing (where the continuum of trust is based on identity, physical context or a combination of both). In this paper, we present a novel attribute vector calculus based approach for modeling the continuum of trust.
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paper_title: Trust-based security in pervasive computing environments

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Traditionally, stand-alone computers and small networks rely on user authentication and access control to provide security. These physical methods use system-based controls to verify the identity of a person or process, explicitly enabling or restricting the ability to use, change, or view a computer resource. However, these strategies are inadequate for the increased flexibility that distributed networks such as the Internet and pervasive computing environments require because such systems lack central control and their users are not all predetermined. Mobile users expect to access locally hosted resources and services anytime and anywhere, leading to serious security risks and access control problems. We propose a solution based on trust management that involves developing a security policy, assigning credentials to entities, verifying that the credentials fulfill the policy, delegating trust to third parties, and reasoning about users' access rights. This architecture is generally applicable to distributed systems but geared toward pervasive computing environments.
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paper_title: Security in Pervasive Computing: Current Status and Open Issues

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Million of wireless device users are ever on the move, becoming more dependent on their PDAs, smart phones, and other handheld devices. With the advancement of pervasive computing, new and unique capabilities are available to aid mobile societies. The wireless nature of these devices has fostered a new era of mobility. Thousands of pervasive devices are able to arbitrarily join and leave a network, creating a nomadic environment known as a pervasive ad hoc network. However, mobile devices have vulnerabilities, and some are proving to be challenging. Security in pervasive computing is the most critical challenge. Security is needed to ensure exact and accurate confidentiality, integrity, authentication, and access control, to name a few. Security for mobile devices, though still in its infancy, has drawn the attention of various researchers. As pervasive devices become incorporated in our day-to-day lives, security will increasingly becoming a common concern for all users - - though for most it will be an afterthought, like many other computing functions. The usability and expansion of pervasive computing applications depends greatly on the security and reliability provided by the applications. At this critical juncture, security research is growing. This paper examines the recent trends and forward thinking investigation in several fields of security, along with a brief history of previous accomplishments in the corresponding areas. Some open issues have been discussed for further investigation.
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paper_title: A policy language for a pervasive computing environment

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We describe a policy language designed for pervasive computing applications that is based on deontic concepts and grounded in a semantic language. The pervasive computing environments under consideration are those in which people and devices are mobile and use various wireless networking technologies to discover and access services and devices in their vicinity. Such pervasive environments lend themselves to policy-based security due to their extremely dynamic nature. Using policies allows the security functionality to be modified without changing the implementation of the entities involved. However, along with being extremely dynamic, these environments also tend to span several domains and be made up of entities of varied capabilities. A policy language for environments of this sort needs to be very expressive but lightweight and easily extensible. We demonstrate the feasibility of our policy language in pervasive environments through a prototype used as part of a secure pervasive system.
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paper_title: Privacy by Design - Principles of Privacy-Aware Ubiquitous Systems

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This paper tries to serve as an introductory reading to privacy issues in the field of ubiquitous computing. It develops six principles for guiding system design, based on a set of fair information practices common in most privacy legislation in use today: notice, choice and consent, proximity and locality, anonymity and pseudonymity, security, and access and recourse. A brief look at the history of privacy protection, its legal status, and its expected utility is provided as a background.
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Title: Privacy, Trust, and Identity in Pervasive Computing: A Review of Technical Challenges and Future Research Directions

Section 1: INTRODUCTION
Description 1: In this section, introduce the overarching theme of pervasive computing, its potential advantages, and the security-related issues it faces, such as privacy, trust, and identity.

Section 2: Network Access in Pervasive Computing
Description 2: Discuss the network access challenges specific to pervasive computing environments, including mobility, dynamic topology changes, and why traditional security measures like firewalls are inadequate.

Section 3: Privacy in Pervasive Computing
Description 3: Explore the privacy concerns in pervasive computing, how personal data is collected and shared in such environments, and review existing solutions and mechanisms to protect user privacy.

Section 4: Trust in Pervasive Computing
Description 4: Examine the role of trust in pervasive computing environments, different models of trust, and how trust relationships are formed and maintained dynamically.

Section 5: Identity in Pervasive Computing
Description 5: Review methods for establishing and verifying user identities within pervasive computing environments, considering the unique challenges posed by mobility and dynamic interactions.

Section 6: Comparison between Traditional Computing and Pervasive Computing
Description 6: Compare and contrast the security-related issues and the design of pervasive computing systems with those of traditional computing systems.

Section 7: Future Research Directions
Description 7: Identify and explore various research opportunities related to privacy, trust, and identity in pervasive computing environments.

Section 8: Summary
Description 8: Summarize the paper's content, highlighting the major challenges and technological advances reviewed, and underscore the importance of addressing privacy, trust, and identity to design secure pervasive computing environments.