Distributed Certificate Authority in Cluster-based Ad hoc networks
Ghassan Chaddoud, Keith M. Martin · 2006
The need to secure communication in ad hoc network is extremely challenging because of the dynamic nature of the network and the lack of centralized management. This makes public key cryptographic services particularly difficult to support. We propose a distributed certificate authority intended for deployment in an NTDR cluster-based architecture. We also outline procedures for maintaining this distributed certificate authority amongst a highly dynamic membership of shareholding nodes. 1