Reliability and Security for Safety-Critical Service Compositions

Kevin Theuermann*

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Abstract

Service composition represents the combination of individual distributed services, which are operated by different organizations. A composite service may include security or safety-critical services, which could have a serious impact on individuals and thus, require correctness of generated outputs as a crucial property. For this reason, service composition systems must avoid a manipulation of critical services and have to guarantee high reliability of computed outputs as well as availability. Secure multiparty computation and verifiable secret sharing enables a privacy-preserving computation of service outputs jointly generated by several parties, which makes it possible to prevent a single point of failure for critical services and guarantees correctness of a generated output. In this work, we introduce a concept for privacy-preserving and reliable service compositions through the application of secure multiparty computation in combination with threshold signatures. Threshold signatures make it possible to define a maximum number of allowed unavailable actors, which do not participate in the mulitparty computation protocol. This mechanism enables a flexible definition of security or safety requirements for critical services. The feasibility of the proposed solution is demonstrated by an implemented proof-of-concept for a composite medical alert service.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationInformation Systems Security - 16th International Conference, ICISS 2020, Proceedings
Subtitle of host publication16th International Conference, ICISS 2020, Jammu, India, December 16–20, 2020, Proceedings
EditorsSalil Kanhere, Vishwas T Patil, Shamik Sural, Manoj S Gaur
PublisherSpringer, Cham
Pages45-65
Number of pages21
ISBN (Electronic)978-3-030-65610-2
ISBN (Print)978-3-030-65609-6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 6 Dec 2020
Event16th International Conference on Information Systems Security: ICISS 2020 - Virtuell, India
Duration: 16 Dec 202019 Dec 2020

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume12553 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference16th International Conference on Information Systems Security
Abbreviated titleICISS 2020
Country/TerritoryIndia
CityVirtuell
Period16/12/2019/12/20

Keywords

  • Reliability
  • Availability
  • service composition
  • Privacy
  • Safety

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Information Systems
  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Computer Science(all)

Fields of Expertise

  • Information, Communication & Computing

Treatment code (Nähere Zuordnung)

  • Application

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