An efficient anonymous authentication mechanism for delay tolerant networks

作者：Su, Renwang^*; Cao, Zhenfu

来源：Computers & Electrical Engineering, 2010, 36(3): 435-441.

DOI：10.1016/j.compeleceng.2009.11.001

• Delay tolerant network
• Security
• Anonymous authentication

Security and privacy are crucial to the wide deployments of delay tolerant networks. Without security and privacy guarantees, people are reluctant to accept such a new network paradigm. To address the security and privacy issues in delay tolerant networks, in this paper, based on ID-based ring signatures and Merkle hash tree techniques, we present a new efficient anonymous authentication mechanism. The newly proposed mechanism not only achieves good security properties, including authentication, anonymity and confidentiality, but also has strong robustness and high efficiency.

• 出版日期2010-5
• 单位浙江工商大学; 上海交通大学