Research ArticleOpen accessEvery word in the titleAnonymous and Distributed Authentication for Peer-to-Peer NetworksPasan Tennakoon, Supipi Karunathilaka, Rishikeshan Lavakumar et al.Well-known authentication mechanisms such as Public-key Infrastructure (PKI) and Identity-based Public-key Certificates (ID-PKC) are not suitable for integration in a Peer-to-Peer (P2P) network environment, the reason being either the lack of or the difficulty in maintaining a centralized authority to manage the certificates. Authentication becomes even harder in anonymous environments. In this study, we present three authentication protocols such that … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 19, Issue 1 · 3 Jan 2023 · 6,539 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractMobile Anonymous Trust Based Routing Using Ant Colony OptimizationR. Kalpana, N. RengarajanProblem statement: Ad hoc networks are susceptible to malicious attacks through denial of services, traffic analysis and spoofing. The security of the ad hoc routing protocol depends upon encryption, authentication, anonymity and trust factors. End-to-end security of data is provided by encryption and authentication, topology information of the nodes can be obtained by studying traffic and routing data. This security … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 9, Issue 8 · 30 Jun 2012 · 6,946 accessesView PDFCite