Dmitri Vinokurov

Authenticated names

Currently, most means of communication include some form of identification of the sender/originator, but none of these identifications are securely authenticated (at least not conveniently or in wide use). Legitimate business entities can be misrepresented by their name, and this creates opportunities for various scams known as phishing. We propose a new end-to-end authentication scheme that can be used to authenticate companies over many means of communication including telephony, email, web, and Instant Messaging. The framework is flexible and gives concerned legitimate institutions the ability to delegate their authenticated names to employees outside the office as well as outsourcing companies.