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The NHS as a Proving Ground for Cryptosystems
Overview This paper examines the challenges the National Health Service poses as an environment for public-key cryptography systems. The NHS is Europe's largest single employer with over 1.2 million staff. In the last decade, it has launched several major programmes to develop NHS-wide information systems. But systems handling patients' medical records are subject to a plethora of laws, policies, guidelines, and practices for controlling the access, use, and storage of the information. Cryptography is an obvious means to secure and protect confidential information. Recently, identity-based public key cryptography schemes not only seem easier to deploy than previous schemes, but also seem equal to the challenges. This paper gives a detailed overview of the features and challenges the NHS environment presents to uses of cryptography, to qualify impressions of our cryptosystem and to guide future efforts to develop it.
| Publisher | HP Labs | File Format | PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5 |
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| Date Published | October 2003 | Downloads | 205 |
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