Research Article
Anonymity and Security in Delay Tolerant Networks
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/SECCOM.2007.4550373, author={Aniket Kate and Gregory M. Zaverucha and Urs Hengartner}, title={Anonymity and Security in Delay Tolerant Networks}, proceedings={3rd International ICST Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks}, publisher={IEEE}, proceedings_a={SECURECOMM}, year={2008}, month={6}, keywords={Authentication Data security Disruption tolerant networking Identity-based encryption Internet Privacy Public key Public key cryptography Road transportation Telemedicine}, doi={10.1109/SECCOM.2007.4550373} }- Aniket Kate
Gregory M. Zaverucha
Urs Hengartner
Year: 2008
Anonymity and Security in Delay Tolerant Networks
SECURECOMM
IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/SECCOM.2007.4550373
Abstract
A delay tolerant network (DTN) is a store and forward network where end-to-end connectivity is not assumed and where opportunistic links between nodes are used to transfer data. An emerging application of DTNs are rural area DTNs, which provide Internet connectivity to rural areas in developing regions using conventional transportation mediums, like buses. Potential applications of these rural area DTNs are e-governance, telemedicine and citizen journalism. Therefore, security and privacy are critical for DTNs. Traditional cryptographic techniques based on PKI-certified public keys assume continuous network access, which makes these techniques inapplicable to DTNs. We present the first anonymous communication solution for DTNs and introduce a new anonymous authentication protocol as a part of it. Furthermore, we present a security infrastructure for DTNs to provide efficient secure communication based on identitybased cryptography. We show that our solutions have better performance than existing security infrastructures for DTNs.