Digital Time-Stamping
FAQ
What is digital timestamping?
(RSA FAQ, 7.11)
What is a digital time-stamping service?
(Verisign Digital ID Introduction)
Why time-stamping?
Time-Date Stamping
(Collection @pkilaw.com)
Time-stamping mailing list
Research groups and companies working on _research_ or original development in time-stamping
Surety Technologies
Cuculus Project
(Estonian project)
Digital Time-Stamping and the Evaluation of Security Primitives
(KU Leuven)
TIMESEC
(Digital Time-Stamping and the Evaluation of Security Primitives (Belgian Project))
Math RiZK
(www.timestamping.com)
PKITS Public Key Infrastructure with Time-Stamping Authority
CITA
IdentiScape
(Stanford)
Authentication/Notary Working Group, Japan
(22.11.01)
Commercial/Experimental Time-Stamping or Notary Services
Commercial
Surety
Document Authentication Systems, Inc.
E-Timestamp
(a service of the DigiStamp Company)
FirstUse.Com
Timeproof
(A unit of MAZ Hamburg GmbH)
TimeStamp.Com
VeriSign Timestamping Service
eVeritas
(Spain)
GuardTime
(09.10.07)
Datum Trusted Time
(Finland)
AuthentiDate
German Version
Aloha
Explanation
Free
PGP Digital Timestamping Service
Experimental and Pilot projects
Servicio de Sellado Digital de Tiempo
(UPM.ES)
SecTime
Ewiges Logfile
(in German)
The Internet TS Service
(MIT, Jeffrey Schiller)
Time Stamp Service - Help
(Ferdinando Ricchiuti)
Demonstration Service of French postal office
EdelWeb Experimental Time Stamping Service
RFC Experimental TSS
(Com-And)
Not existing anymore? (as of 24.07.00)
Protecrea
Entropia Internet Notary Service
An Experimental Time Stamp Service
Software
Time-Stamping Pilot Project
(Cybernetica)
OpenTSA
Relevant Digital Signature and Other Laws
Papers
Cleaning up a mess on the web: a comparison of federal and state digital signature laws
(Julian Epstein, Journal of Legilsation and Public Policy, 2002)
Estonia
Estonian Digital Signature Law
(in Estonian)
English Translation
(.rtf format)
Cuculus Project
(A background project for the law)
[scholar]
Patents concerning Time-Stamping
Digital document time-stamping with catenate certificate
(US-patent 5136646)
Method for secure timestamping of digital documents
(US patent 5136647)
Method of extending the validity of a cryptographic certificate
(US patent 5373561)
Method for secure timestamping of digital documents
(US patent RE34954)
System and method for electronic transmission, storage and retrieval of authenticated documents
:Digital document authentication system:U.S. Patent No. 5,781,629, issued July 14, 1998:15.05.99
Relative logarithmic time stamps for reduced memory map size
(US05978928, Robert A. Rust)
Network Time Protocol (NTP)
PKITS
Time Service Department, U.S. Naval Observatory
Internet Drafts & RFCs
draft-ietf-pkix-time-stamp-11.txt
(Time Stamp Protocol)
Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure. Data Validation and Certification Server Protocols
(RFC 3029, Adams, Sylvester, Zolotarev, Zuccherato)
Papers
How to Time-Stamp a Digital Document
(Stuart Haber and W. Scott Stornetta, Journal of Cryptology, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 99-111 (1991))
Efficient Broadcast Time-Stamping
(Josh Benaloh and deMare, M.)
Improving the Efficiency and Reliability of Digital Time-Stamping
(Dave Bayer, Stuart Haber, and W. Scott Stornetta, 1993)
Secure names for bit-strings
(Stuart Haber and W. Scott Stornetta, 1997)
Digital Time-stamping to Support Non Repudiation in Electronic Communications
(Fernando Pinto, Vasco Freitas)
Some Timestamping Protocol Failures
(Mike Just)
1998
Time-Stamping With Binary Linking Schemes
(Ahto Buldas, Peeter Laud, Helger Lipmaa, Jan Villemson, Crypto '98)
New Linking Schemes for Digital Time-Stamping
(Ahto Buldas, Peeter Laud, ICISC '98)
1999
Integrating Time-Stamping and Notarization
(Meelis Roos, master thesis, 1999)
Secure and Efficient Time-Stamping Systems
(Helger Lipmaa, PhD Thesis, 1999)
Timestamps: Main issues on their use and implementation
(Henri Massias, Xavier Serret and Jean-Jacques Quisquater)
Design of a secure timestamping service with minimal trust requirement
(Henri Massias, Xavier Serret and Jean-Jacques Quisquater)
Design of a timestamping system
(Preneel, Van Rompay, Quiaquater, Massias, Serret Avila)
2000
Optimally Efficient Accountable Time-Stamping
(Ahto Buldas, Helger Lipmaa, Berry Schoenmakers, PKC '2000)
Fast Verification in Group Hash Timestamp
(Jungsoo Byun)
A Local Time-stamping System
(Jungsoo Byun, Alban Gabillon)
Accountable Certificate Management using Undeniable Attestations
( Ahto Buldas, Peeter Laud, and Helger Lipmaa, ACM CCS 2001)
[scholar]
Management of Information Used to Verify Time Stamps in Linking Schemes
(Computer Security Symposium, 2000)
Time Stamps with both Time Information and Evidence: Security and Evidence Management Cost
(Masashi Une and Tsutomu Matsumoto, 2000)
2001
Efficient Long-term Validation of Digital Signatures
(Arne Ansper, Ahto Buldas, Meelis Roos, Jan Willemson, PKC 2001)
Improving the Availability of Time-stamping Services
(Arne Ansper, Ahto Buldas, Märt Saarepera, and Jan Willemson, ACISP 2001)
Enabling the archival storage of signed documents
(Petros Maniatis and Mary Baker, 2001)
Enabling the Long-Term Archival of Signed Documents through Time Stamping
(Petros Maniatis, T.J. Giuli, Mary Baker, 2001)
Time Stamps with both Time Information and Evidence: Security and Evidence Management Cost
( Une Masashi, Matsumoto Tsutomu, 2001)
A Study on Security of Time Stamping Protocols Cuculus and PKITS
(Une Masashi, Matsumoto Tsutomu, 2001)
The Security Evaluation of Time Stamping Schemes: The Present Situation and Studies
(Masashi Une, 2001 (IMES Discussion Papers Series))
[scholar]
Relations between Security and Verification Procedures of Time Stamps
(SCIS 2001, Masashi Une and Tsutomu Matsumoto (in Japanese))
Ten Security Classes of Time Stamping Systems
(IEICE TR, 2001, Masashi Une and Tsutomu Matsumoto (in Japanese))
A Two-Level Time-Stamping System; A. Gabillon, J. Byun
(IFIP/SEC 2001)
A Study on Security of Time Stamping Protocols Cuculus and PKITS
(Masashi Une and Tsutomu Matsumoto, 2001)
Defining and Evaluating Availability of Time Stamping Schemes
(Masashi Une, Tsutomu Matsumoto, 2001)
2002
Secure History Preservation Through Timeline Entanglement
(Petros Maniatis, Mary Baker)
Digital timestamps for dispute settlement in electronic commerce: generation, verification, and renewal
(Matsuura, Imai, 2002)
A Framework to Evaluate Security and Cost of Time Stamping Schemes
(IEICE Trans. 2002, Masashi Une and Tsutomu Matsumoto)
Size-efficient interval time stamps
(Jan Villemson (Willemson), PhD thesis)
On Optimal Hash Tree Traversal for Interval Time-Stamping
(Helger Lipmaa, ISC 2002)
A Time Stamped Virtual WORM System
(A. Apvrille, J. Hughes, SECI 2002)
Renewing Cryptographic Timestamps
(S. Al-Riyami and C.J. Mitchell, CMS 2002)
Classification of Time Stamping Schemes from the Viewpoint of Availability of Verification Procedures
(Masashi Une, Tsutomu Matsumoto, 2002)
Relationships between Time Stamping Schemes from Viewpoints of Availability and Integrity
(Masashi Une, Tsutomu Matsumoto, 2002)
XML Security Time Stamping Protocol
(Axelle Apvrille, Vincent Girier, ISSE 2002)
A new method for Digital Time-Stamping of Electronic Document
(Everton Schonardie Pasqual, Júlio Dias, Ricardo Felipe Custódio, 2002)
A Historic Name-Trail Service
(Petros Maniatis, Mary Baker)
Towards an XML Format for Time-Stamps
(Karel Wouters, Bart Preneel, Ana Isabel González-Tablas, Arturo Ribagorda, XML 2002)
2003
Historic Integrity in Distributed Systems
(Petros Maniatis, Stanford, 2003)
A Write-once Data Management System
(Harada etc, 2003)
Providing Interoperable Timestamping Services
(A. Cilardo, A. Mazzeo, L. Romano, G. P. Saggese, and G. Cattaneo, 2003)
Providing Digital Time Stamping Services to Mobile Devices
(D. Cotroneo, C. di Flora, A. Mazzeo, L. Romano, S. Russo, G. P. Saggese, Words 2003)
Efficient relative time-stamping scheme based on the ternary link
(Igarashi Y, Kuwakado H, Tanaka H, 2003)
A Web Services Based Architecture for Digital Time Stamping
(A. Cilardo, A. Mazzeo, L. Romano, G. P. Saggese, Journal of Web Engineering, 2003)
Using Web Services Technology for Inter-Enterprise Integration of Digital Time Stamping
(A. Cilardo, A. Mazzeo, L. Romano, G. P. Saggese, and G. Cattaneo)
2004
A Proposal for Distributed Digital Time-Stamping
(Jon Busey)
[scholar]
On the design of time-stamped signatures
(Sun HM, Chen BC, Yeh HT, Journal CSS, 2004)
Passive Timestamping in the Bounded Storage Model
(Amnon Ta-Shma, Crypto 2004)
Formal proof of correctness of scalable event-ordering system
(Mizuhito Ogawa, Eiichi Horita, Satoshi Ono, 2004)
2005
A High Performance Solution for Providing Digital Time Stamping Services to Mobile Devices
(A. Cilardo, D. Cotroneo, C. di Flora, A. Mazzeo, L. Romano, S. Russo, 2005)
CATS: Certified Authenticated Tamper-evident State Store for Network Services
(Aydan R. Yumerefendi and Jeffrey S. Chase, 2005)
Formal proof of correctness of scalable event-ordering system Mizuhito OGAWA, Eiichi HORITA, and Satoshi ONO, 2005
(20.05.05 )
On Universal Composable Security of Time-Stamping Protocols
(Toshihiko Matsuo and Shin.ichiro Matsuo, eprint 2005/148)
Universally Composable Time-Stamping Schemes with Audit
(Ahto Buldas Peeter Laud Mart Saarepera Jan Willemson, eprint 2005/198)
A Distributed Time Stamping Scheme
(A. Bonnecaze, P. Liardet, A. Gabillon, K. Blibech, 2005)
Implementation of an Evidentiary Record Validation Utility and Security Analysis for Surety's AbsoluteProo
( Michael Thimblin, NagaSree Chandu Kamisetty, Padmanabhan Raman, Anupama Paila, 2005)
2006
A Time-Stamping Proxy Signature Scheme Using Time-Stamping Service
(Eric Jui-Lin Lu and Cheng-Jian Huang, IJNS 2006)
2007
Knowledge-Binding Commitments with Applications in Time-Stamping
(Ahto Buldas, Sven Laur, eprint 2007/071)
Time-Stamping Bibliography
(@Korea)
Slides & Surveys
Techniques for Digital Timestamping
(Mike Just)
Tecniche di Time-Stamping
(a survey in Italian)
C^asovno Z^igosanje v elektronskem poslovanju in njegova implementacija v slovenski drz^avni upravi
(Mitja Dec^man, MSc thesis (Slovenia))
PKI: gli strumenti tecnologici
How Do Digital Time-Stamps Support Digital Signatures?
(Haber, Kaliski, Stornetta (Cryptobytes))
Ajatemplid digitaaldokumentidel
(Ahto Buldas, Helger Lipmaa, in Estonian)
Adding Non-Repudiation to Web Transactions
(Blixt, Hagström)
Digital Signatures and Authentication
(Helger Lipmaa, from signatures to time-stamping)
TORSEC Time Stamp reference page
Digital Time-Stamping Applications
(Jean Marc Dieu)
Digital Notary Technical Overview
(Surety)
Time-Stamping for Malaysia
(Surya Ismail)
Time Stamp Protocol
(Jung-Soo Byun)
Individuals working on time-stamping
Mary Baker
(Stanford)
Dave Bayer
(Columbia)
Josh Benaloh
(Microsoft)
Ahto Buldas
(Küberneetika AS)
Jungsoo Byun
(Toulon)
Vasco Freitas
(Minho)
Stuart Haber
(STAR-LAB)
Mike Just
(Entrust)
Peeter Laud
(Saarbrücken)
Helger Lipmaa
(University College London)
Petros Maniatis
(Stanford)
Henry Massias
(Louvain)
Meelis Roos
(Küberneetika)
Kouichi Sakurai
(Kyushu)
Berry Schoenmakers
(Eindhoven)
Jan Villemson
(Küberneetika)
Other link farms
Time Stamping
(José A. Mañas)
Related areas
Timed-release crypto
Time-lock puzzles and timed-release Crypto
(Ronald L. Rivest, Adi Shamir, and David A. Wagner)
Efficient Timed-release Public-key Encryption
(Giovanni Di Crescenzo, Rafail Ostrovsky and S. Rajagopalan)
Timed-Release Cryptography
(Wenbo Mao, eprint 2001/014)
Non-Repudiation
Jianying Zhou's Publications
Non-repudiation in Electronic Commerce
(Jianying Zhou (Artech House, 2001))
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Public-Key Infrastructure Links
(Helger Lipmaa)
Non-cryptographic time-stamping
High Resolution Time Stamp Facility
(IBM Alphaworks)
Cryptology Pointers
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