Encrypting ontological meta-model using elliptic curve cryptography with identity based encryption

The process of building applications using semantic web and the knowledge repositories has many challenges associated with it. One of them is that information security is still a major issue with protecting these knowledge repositories that helps in interaction, integration, and interoperability between computing devices and applications. We believe that Elliptic Curve Cryptography provides a convenient algorithm to solve this problem. In this paper, we combine the Elliptic Curve Cryptography algorithm with Identity Based Encryption for encrypting ontological meta-models built using semantic web technologies.