Multilateral security
Multilateral security (also multilateral security) describes the concept after a security model includes the needs for security of all parties involved. When establishing a communication link, the protective interests of all parties are first considered, possibly revealing conflicting and incompatible goals. The subsequent resolution of the protective conflicts does not necessarily lead to maximum security for all involved. However, it creates a clear balance of power, which can then be enforced by those involved.
example
An example of a problem of multilateral security are sales and services on the Internet. A seller is assigned the legitimate (security) interest not to send goods and to provide services that are not paid for. On the part of the buyer, on the other hand, there is an interest that goods that have been paid for are delivered safely and that accounting data is not misused.
A multilaterally (in this case: bilaterally) secure solution ensures that the security interests of both sides are taken into account and that possible claims of both sides with regard to the security of payment transactions, verifiability of payment or shipping, possible anonymity claims, etc. are preserved.
In many cases where the technical platform on which the parties move is provided by only one of them, it may happen that their interests are mainly taken into account.
Other examples of fields where multilateral security is of concern are
See also
literature
- Kai Rannenberg: Multilateral Security: a Concept and Examples for Balanced Security , Proceedings of the 2000 Workshop on New Security Paradigms (NSPW'00), pp. 151-162, ACM Press, 2000, ISBN 1-58113-260-3
- Stefan G. Weber: Multilaterally Secure Pervasive Cooperation: Privacy Protection, Accountability and Secure Communication for the Age of Pervasive Computing , IOS Press, 2012, ISBN 978-1-61499-156-4