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Communications of the ACM
Chord: A scalable peer-to-peer lookup service for internet applications
Proceedings of the 2001 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
COCA: A secure distributed online certification authority
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Key Management for Heterogeneous Ad Hoc Wireless Networks
ICNP '02 Proceedings of the 10th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols
Identity-Based Encryption from the Weil Pairing
CRYPTO '01 Proceedings of the 21st Annual International Cryptology Conference on Advances in Cryptology
Self-Organized Public-Key Management for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
Mobility helps security in ad hoc networks
Proceedings of the 4th ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking & computing
Providing Robust and Ubiquitous Security Support for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
ICNP '01 Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Network Protocols
Architecture and evaluation of an unplanned 802.11b mesh network
Proceedings of the 11th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Mobility Helps Peer-to-Peer Security
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
IEEE Network: The Magazine of Global Internetworking
Chord-PKI: embedding a public key infrastructure into the chord overlay network
EuroPKI'07 Proceedings of the 4th European conference on Public Key Infrastructure: theory and practice
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Community mesh networks have emerged rapidly in every metropolis around the world, however many of the security methods applied are counter-intuitive and usually disrupt the autonomous characteristics of the mesh nodes. In SOMA we present a structured Peerto-Peer solution providing authentication service based on a scalable, self-organized and fully distributed Web-of-Trust. Our proposal is a hybrid Public Key Infrastructure build on top of Chord, allowing each agent to place its own trust policy while keeping the autonomous characteristics the nodes intact. Our goal is to create a large-scale authentication system for mesh networks without the need of a Trusted Third Party. We leave the decision of whom to trust in each agent independently taking advantage of the overlay to alleviate the shortcomings of traditional Web-of-Trust models. This is achieved by using the overlay as a meta-structure to infer trust relationships. The possible attacks and limitations of our proposal are also investigated and discussed.