Shared RSA key generation in a mobile ad hoc network

  • Authors:
  • B. Lehane;L. Doyle;D. O'Mahony

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland;Dept. of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland;Dept. of Computer Science, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

  • Venue:
  • MILCOM'03 Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE conference on Military communications - Volume II
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

The use of a threshold certificate authority to provide cryptographic key management in mobile ad hoc networks has been suggested in the literature. We have designed and implemented such a key management service for our ad hoc networking test bed. In this paper we describe our use of distributed shared RSA key generation techniques to create a threshold certificate authority 'from scratch'. Our goal is to create a scaleable key management solution, which does not rely on prior infrastructure for its inception, and as such is formed in a truly ad hoc manner, compatible with the formation of the network itself.