Abstract:
With the increasing amount of the handheld devices and respective pervasive
services, the issues of security have alarmingly risen. One can wonder about the
pervasive services to be free of every security flaw. The paper suggests a mechanism
for a trust based ad‐hoc authentication with a distributed mechanism and
authorization to pervasive services. The openness of a truly pervasive environment
has been encountered with its interaction history and recommendation from
trustworthy sources. Proposed distributed security architecture is realized with a
web based framework managing the user registration of the university at a novel
level. The architecture is designed to provide secure autonomous services for an
assumed pervasive based scenario. The nature of pervasiveness is fulfilled by
allowing the novel user to proceed in the system but with the minimum trust initially
which changes with the passage of time, dynamically depending on the actions
which the user performs. Certain actions on the specified services are granted to the
user on the basis of trust level and user category. Delegation access control module
exists with respect to the time period.
