Paper Info
Title
AC-PKI: Anonymous and Certificateless Public-Key Infrastructure for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
Abstract
This paper studies public-key management, a fundamental problem in providing security support for mobile ad hoc networks. The infrastructureless nature and network dynamics of ad hoc networks make the conventional certificate-based public-key solutions less suitable. To tackle this problem, we propose a novel Anonymous and Certificateless Public-Key Infrastructure (AC-PKI) for ad hoc networks. AC-PKI enables public-key services with certificateless public keys and thus avoids the complicated certificate management inevitable in conventional certificate-based solutions. To satisfy the demand for private keys during network operation, we employ the secret-sharing technique to distribute a system master-key among a pre-selected set of nodes, called D-PKGs, which offer a collaborative private-key-generation service. In addition, we identify pinpoint attacks against D-PKGs and propose anonymizing D-PKGs as the countermeasure. Moreover, we determine the optimal secret-sharing parameters to achieve the maximum security.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1109/ICC.2005.1495073
IEEE International Conference on Communications
Keywords
Field
DocType
collaboration,computer security,mobile ad hoc networks,public key,ad hoc networks,network dynamics,mobile ad hoc network,public key cryptography,ad hoc network,computer networks,satisfiability,public key infrastructure,engineering management,secret sharing
Public key infrastructure,Mobile ad hoc network,Computer science,Computer security,Computer network,Ad hoc wireless distribution service,Optimized Link State Routing Protocol,Wireless ad hoc network,Certificate Management Protocol,Public-key cryptography,Vehicular ad hoc network
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1550-3607
23
1.39
References 
Authors
12
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yanchao Zhang1188491.22
Wei Liu2112452.28
Wenjing Lou37822328.18
Yuguang Fang46982476.76
Younggoo Kwon536727.19