Research directions for trust and security in human-centric computing

Pervasive networks foresee communicating and computing devices embedded throughout our environment. This will cause huge increases in the complexity of network infrastructures and the information services available over them. The challenge of managing information services, while maintaining security and privacy will be great. 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 addressed in order to make secure pervasive computing environments a reality.