A Survey on Key Management of Identity-based Schemes in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

Abstract

In mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs), the research on key management of identity-based scheme is attracting more and more attention. In this paper, we study on four types of identity-based schemes which resist key escrow problem at different degrees, and introduce several schemes for each type. Then, we give an overview of the characteristics of their key management, and made a summary of key generation and distribution. Subsequently, to build a more secure identity-based scheme for MANET, we recommend some techniques to improve security and availability of its key management. Finally, we point out some problems of identity-based schemes in MANETs, which are not addressed and we will explore in the future.

Genetic-IDGKA: Genetic ID-Based Group Key Agreement Protocol for Large MANETs

“…Most of the Key Management Schemes [12,11,2] were designed and proposed on Certificate-Based and ID-Based Cryptography System. In other words, the Certificate-Based Cryptosystems [12], the senders public key is verified and certified with a certificate that is issuing by CA ie Certification Authority.…”

“…The effectiveness of Digital Certificates is the main reason to successfully considering the Public Key Cryptography. The Public Key Infrastructure, (PKI) is used to manage Digital Certificates, which proposed for Public Key Cryptography [12,11]. The prime component of Public Key Infrastructure is the Certificate Authority (CA), which guarantees the validity of Digital Certificates.…”

“…Its success ie Public Key Infrastructure's strength is depending on the strength of security and availability of Certificate Authority. The Public Key Infrastructure has been deployed for infrastructure-based wireless networks [12,11,6]. As we need best network secured connectivity, more researchers have focussing these environments to provide security and the scalability as well of Certificate Authority.…”

“…Cryptanalysts have attacking on MANET's basic mechanisms such as Routing and Security Mechanisms particularly on Key Management Mechanism [12,11,2]. Thus more researchers have focusing on Key Management Schemes to propose efficient and effective Security Mechanisms.…”

Multi-document threshold signcryption scheme

“…Nevertheless, the hardness of solving the ECDLP is stronger than the one of solving the bilinear Diffie–Hellman problem. It is worth pointing out that latest existing papers of signcryption schemes are mainly interesting to resource‐constrained environments such as ad hoc networks, wireless sensor networks, mobile computing and ubiquitous, and their algorithms focus on making the message secure in several receivers and maintaining a suitable authentication. Unlike these methods, which handle one message mapping to multiple receivers, our scheme deals with transmitting multiple signcryption information to various receivers and fulfilling the security requirements.…”