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Context-based authentication and transport of cultural assets

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We present a ubiquitous system that combines context information, security mechanisms and a transport infrastructure to provide authentication and secure transport of works of art. Authentication is provided for both auctions and exhibitions, where users can use their own mobile devices to authenticate works of art. Transport is provided by a secure protocol that makes use of position–time information and wireless sensors providing context information. The system has been used in several real case studies in the context of the CUSPIS project and continues to be used as a commercial product for the transportation and exhibition of cultural assets in Italy.

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Notes

  1. In the CUSPIS project, the private keys are generated by the certification authorities and sealed into a tamper-proof device which is delivered securely to the organisations.

  2. We used RFID tags with 128 KB of memory that maintain full compatibility with the EPC standard [11].

  3. Small fluctuations may be consequence of hardware imprecision.

  4. The search inside the revocation lists is performed based on the GD digital signature S, the UC code and the owner.

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Acknowledgments

This research was supported by UK EPSRC research grants EP/D076633/1 (UBIVAL) and EP/C537181/1 (CAREGRID). We would also like to thank the members of the Policy Research Group at Imperial College, and the CUSPIS partners: the Next S.p.A. research group, Vodafone, and the Italian and Greek ministries who supported our case studies.

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  1. Department of Computing, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, UK

    Leonardo Mostarda, Changyu Dong & Naranker Dulay

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This article is a revised and extended version of a paper that was presented at the IFIPTM 2008 conference [1].

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Mostarda, L., Dong, C. & Dulay, N. Context-based authentication and transport of cultural assets. Pers Ubiquit Comput 14, 321–334 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-009-0233-8

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