This thesis analyses authentication in public key encryption and makes contributions in two areas. Firstly, Compressed Nested PKI is proposed which improves the certificate validation process. Then an implicitly certified encryption scheme, Authenticated Public Key Encryption, which makes keys easier to manage, is introduced
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Submitted to the School of Information Technology of the Faculty of Science and Technology, Deakin University
Degree conferred 2010
Thesis (M.Sc.)--Deakin University, Victoria, 2009
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 142-150)