A Smart Card Based Distributed Identity Management Infrastructure for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

The network is becoming more and more versatile because of the variety of the computing resources and the communication technologies that have become available. The mobility of the nodes, in these so called Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANets), furthermore leads to a situation where it is very difficult to establish secure community-based or even peer to peer communication channels. The basic and major problem that has to be solved is that of identity management: how to identify and authenticate an entity that is a priori unknown and that tries to dynamically join a community in the network? Even if we solve this problem, how to distribute these certified identities over the network? In this paper, we propose to make a clear distinction between two kinds of organization of a MANet. We consider an identity-based approach and a goal-based approach. In the identity-based approach the nodes of the network have to be precisely identified (i.e. with their real-world identity) and a central admi...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: WISTP
• Authors: Eve Atallah, Serge Chaumette
• Keywords: Goal-based Approach, Identity-based Approach, Mobile Ad Hoc Networks, Security Privacy, WISTP 2007