TY  - JOUR
T1  - A Novel Anonymous and Certificate less Public Key Infrastructure for MANETS
AU - Anandhi, G. AU - Srivatsa, S.K. 
JO  - International Journal of Soft Computing
VL  - 11
IS  - 3
SP  - 114
EP  - 119
PY  - 2016
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1816-9503
DO  - ijscomp.2016.114.119
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=ijscomp.2016.114.119
KW  - CA (Certificate Authority)
KW  -CRL
KW  -keychains
KW  -optiamal
KW  -network operation
AB  - 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.
ER  -