@article{MAKHILLIJSC201611321325, title = {A Novel Anonymous and Certificate less Public Key Infrastructure for MANETS}, journal = {International Journal of Soft Computing}, volume = {11}, number = {3}, pages = {114-119}, year = {2016}, issn = {1816-9503}, doi = {ijscomp.2016.114.119}, url = {https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?issn=1816-9503&doi=ijscomp.2016.114.119}, author = {G. and}, keywords = {CA (Certificate Authority),CRL,keychains,optiamal,network operation}, abstract = {This study proposes a novel Anonymous and Certificateless Public-Key Infrastructure (AC-PKI) for MANETs. Our contributions are mainly three fold. First, we apply Shamir’s secret-sharing technique to distribute the system trust, essentially a system master-key, across apre-selected set of nodes called Distributed Private-Key Generators (D-PKGs). The 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 consequencesin MANETs. Last, we determine the optimal secret-sharing parameters for achieving the maximum security.} }