Security association in mobile ad hoc networks through self-organized public key certification

Authors:
D. S. Thenmozhi;R. Murugan
Affiliations:
Dept. of Computer Science & Engg., Sona College of Technology, Salem, India;Dept. of Computer Science & Engg., Sona College of Technology, Salem, India
Venue:
AMCOS'05 Proceedings of the 4th WSEAS International Conference on Applied Mathematics and Computer Science
Year:
2005

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Abstract

Mobile ad hoc networks (MANET) usually do not provide on-line access to trusted authorities or to centralized servers and they exhibit frequent partitioning due to link and node failures and to node mobility. For these reasons, traditional security solutions that require on-line trusted authorities or certificate repositories are not well suited for securing ad hoc networks. In this paper, we propose a fully self-organized public-key management system that allows users to generate their public-private key pairs, to issue certificates, and to perform authentication regardless of the network partitions and without any centralized services. Furthermore, our approach does not require any trusted authority, not even in the system initialization phase.