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Cryptographic techniques for mobile ad-hoc networks
Received 15 January 2007;
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Abstract
In this paper, we propose some cryptographic techniques to securely set up a mobile ad-hoc network. The process is fully self-managed by the nodes, without any trusted party. New nodes can join the network and are able to obtain the same capabilities as initial nodes; further, each node can obtain a pair of secret/public keys to secure and authenticate its communication. Two additional features of our system are that it allows to implement threshold operations (signature or decryption) involving subgroups of nodes in the network and that any subgroup with a small number of nodes (between 2 and 6) can obtain a common secret key without any communication after the set up phase.
Keywords: Mobile ad-hoc networks; Secret sharing techniques; Identity-based cryptography; Threshold cryptography
Article Outline
- 1. Introduction
- 1.1. Our contribution
- 1.2. Related work
- 1.3. Organization
- 2. Preliminaries
- 2.1. Secret sharing schemes
- 2.2. Identity-based cryptography from bilinear pairings
- 2.2.1. Baek and Zheng’s threshold identity-based decryption scheme
- 2.2.1.1. Setup
- 2.2.1.2. Key generation
- 2.2.1.3. Encryption
- 2.2.1.4. Threshold decryption
- 3. Our proposal
- 3.1. Initialization phase
- 3.1.1. Commitments and verifiability
- 3.1.2. Efficiency
- 3.2. Node aggregation
- 3.2.1. Efficiency
- 3.3. Obtention of individual secret keys
- 3.3.1. PKI scenarios
- 3.3.2. Identity-based scenarios
- 3.3.3. Efficiency
- 3.4. Threshold operations involving subgroups
- 3.4.1. Decreasing the threshold t′
- 3.4.2. Efficiency
- 4. Security and extensions
- 4.1. Security discussion
- 4.2. Proactive security
- 4.3. Key agreement
- 5. Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- References
- Vitae







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