A new scalable distributed authentication for P2P network and its performance evaluation
WSEAS Transactions on Computers
A new scalable distributed authentication for P2P network and its performance evaluation
ICCOMP'08 Proceedings of the 12th WSEAS international conference on Computers
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Today's society has developed a reliance on networking infrastructures. Health, financial, and many other institutions deploy mission critical and even life critical applications on local networks and the global Internet. The security of this infrastructure has been called into question over the last decade. In particular, the protocols directing traffic through the network have been found to be vulnerable. One such protocol is the Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) protocol. This paper proposes a security extension to OSPF containing a decentralized certificate authentication scheme (DecentCA) that eliminates the single point of failure/attack present in current OSPF security extensions. An analysis of the security of the DecentCA is performed.