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Research Paper | Computer Science & Engineering | India | Volume 3 Issue 3, March 2014 | Rating: 6.2 / 10
A Novel Anonymous and Certificate Less Public Key Infrastructure for MANETs
G. Anandhi, S. K. Srivatsa
Abstract: This paper proposes a novel Anonymous and Certificateless Public-Key Infrastructure (AC-PKI) for MANETs. Our contributions are mainly threefold. First, we apply Shamirs secret-sharing technique to distribute the system trust, essentially a system master-key, across a pre-selected set of nodes, called distributed private-key generators (D-PKGs). D-PKGs collaboratively offer a prerequisite private-key-generation (PKG) service during network operation. Second, we propose offering D-PKGs anonymity protection to defend against pinpoint attacks that are quite easy to conduct and may cause devastating consequences in MANETs. Last, we determine the optimal secret-sharing parameters for achieving the maximum security.
Keywords: CA Certificate Authority, CRL, Keychains
Edition: Volume 3 Issue 3, March 2014,
Pages: 597 - 601