Communications of the ACM
PGP: Pretty Good Privacy
Security in Computing
Cryptography and Network Security: Principles and Practice
Cryptography and Network Security: Principles and Practice
Shared Generation of Authenticators and Signatures (Extended Abstract)
CRYPTO '91 Proceedings of the 11th Annual International Cryptology Conference on Advances in Cryptology
Proactive Secret Sharing Or: How to Cope With Perpetual Leakage
CRYPTO '95 Proceedings of the 15th Annual International Cryptology Conference on Advances in Cryptology
CRYPTO '97 Proceedings of the 17th Annual International Cryptology Conference on Advances in Cryptology
Optimal-resilience proactive public-key cryptosystems
FOCS '97 Proceedings of the 38th Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science
Toward Secure Key Distribution in Truly Ad-Hoc Networks
SAINT-W '03 Proceedings of the 2003 Symposium on Applications and the Internet Workshops (SAINT'03 Workshops)
Building intrusion tolerant applications
SSYM'99 Proceedings of the 8th conference on USENIX Security Symposium - Volume 8
Robust and Efficient Sharing of RSA Functions
Journal of Cryptology
IEEE Network: The Magazine of Global Internetworking
An overview of PKI trust models
IEEE Network: The Magazine of Global Internetworking
A survey on peer-to-peer key management for mobile ad hoc networks
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Distributed and secure access control in P2P databases
DBSec'10 Proceedings of the 24th annual IFIP WG 11.3 working conference on Data and applications security and privacy
Efficient public key certificate management for mobile ad hoc networks
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking - Special issue on security and resilience for smart devices and applications
ETUS: enhanced triple umpiring system for security and robustness of wireless mobile ad hoc networks
International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems
Ensuring data storage security against frequency-based attacks in wireless networks
DCOSS'10 Proceedings of the 6th IEEE international conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems
Local key management in opportunistic networks
International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems
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Security poses a major challenge in ad hoc networks today due to the lack of fixed or organizational infrastructure. This paper proposes a modification to the existing "fully distributed certificate authority" scheme for ad hoc networks. In the proposed modification, redundancy is introduced by allocating more than one share to each node in order to increase the probability of creating the certificate for a node in a highly mobile network. A probabilistic analysis is carried out to analyze the trade-offs between the ease of certificate creation and the security provided by the proposed scheme. The analysis carried out from the intruder's perspective suggests that in the worst-case scenario, the intruder is just "one node" away from a legitimate node in compromising the certificate. The analysis also outlines the parameter selection criteria for a legitimate node to maintain a margin of advantage over an intruder in creating the certificate.