Abstract

The Cryptographic Context Negotiation Template (CCNT) report, Version 2, is a revised version of the second publication [Bal98b] resulting from the Dynamic Cryptographic Context Management (DCCM) Project. This project is sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and is being performed by TIS Labs at Network Associates, Inc.(previously Trusted Information Systems, Inc.) This report describes an abstract template for use in negotiating a cryptographic context among a very large number of participants from various organizations. The Cryptographic Context Negotiation Template, or CCNT, is used to establish a cryptographic association among the group of participants and to enforce the cryptographic provisions of the security policy imposed on a sensitive computer application or project.
The DCCM project assumes that a number of organizations, perhaps with differing security policies, have agreed to work cooperatively on a specific project under the control of a designated project initiator. The CCNT is designed to accommodate negotiating a single cryptographic-based security policy based on the desires of the project initiator and the constraints of the organizations and individuals participating in the application.

Date

1999

Authors

D Balenson, D Branstad, D McGrew, J Turner, M Heyman

Journal

Dynamic Cryptographic Context Management (DCCM) Report

Volume

2