Cryptographic Control Plane for Anonymous Software Trust Revocation
Find Innovative SolutionsGenerate Solutions
Solution Overview
Problem
Existing systems face challenges in establishing and revoking trust with anonymous software artifacts or devices while preserving their anonymity, particularly in control planes where unique identities are typically required for trust establishment.
Innovation Solution
The use of cryptographically verifiable anonymized tokens allows control planes to establish and revoke trust with software artifacts or devices without requiring their unique identities, using methods like onion routing to maintain anonymity and employing anonymous token sets for secure communication.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If unique identities are required for trust establishment in control planes, then trust management reliability is improved, but anonymity of software artifacts or devices is lost
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces anonymous tokens as intermediary credentials that mediate between the control plane and software artifacts/devices. These tokens serve as trust carriers without revealing the actual identities of the software artifacts or devices, thus resolving the contradiction between reliable trust management and preserving anonymity.
Solution Approach 2:
The trust establishment mechanism is segmented into separate components: anonymous token issuance by the control plane, token validation by the software artifact/device, and identity preservation. This segmentation allows trust to be managed through tokens rather than direct identity linkage, maintaining both reliability and anonymity.
2Loss of information
If anonymous tokens are used for trust establishment, then anonymity of software artifacts or devices is preserved, but trust revocation capability is weakened
Solution Approach 1:
The control plane maintains feedback mechanisms to monitor and manage anonymous token usage. When compromise or misuse is detected, the control plane can issue revocation notifications that propagate through the system, allowing trust revocation while preserving the anonymity of legitimate users through the same token infrastructure.
3Ease of operation
If traditional identity-based trust systems are used, then trust establishment is straightforward, but privacy and security are compromised
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of using actual identities for trust establishment, the system creates and uses copies in the form of anonymous tokens. These tokens replicate the essential trust-functionality without containing sensitive identity information, thereby simplifying trust operations while eliminating privacy and security risks associated with direct identity exposure.
Data Source
AI summary
Systems and methods for a control plane to cryptographically trust and revoke the trust of anonymous software artifacts or devices are described. In an illustrative, non-limiting embodiment, an Information Handling System (IHS) may include: a processor; and a memory coupled to the processor, where the memory includes program instructions stored thereon that, upon execution by the processor, cause a control plane of the IHS to: establish a trust relationship with a requesting entity based, at least in part, on a received anonymous token of a distributed anonymous token set package; receive a second request from the requesting entity; and subsequent to the second request, determine to revoke the trust relationship with the requesting entity.