Research Directions for Trust and Security in Human-Centric Computing?

Abstract. Pervasive networks foresee communicating computing de-vices embedded throughout our environment. This will cause huge in-creases in the complexity of network infrastructures and the informa-tion available over them. The challenge of managing information services so that humans can access what they desire, while retaining the secu-rity of the services will be difficult. It is not clear that current security paradigms will map readily into such future environments. This paper outlines the authors ’ current position regarding the technical challenges which will need to be understood in order to make secure pervasive com-puting a reality.