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User Revocation in Secure Adhoc Networks
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Intrusion Detection and Ad Hoc Network Security
User Revocation in Secure Adhoc Networks
Bezawada Bruhadeshwar1 and Sandeep S. Kulkarni1 
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Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing MI 48824, USA |
Abstract
We focus on the problem of user revocation in secure adhoc networks. The current approach to achieve security in adhoc networks
is to use a secret instantiation protocol in which, each user is given a subset of secrets from a common secret pool. To communicate
securely, a pair of users use the secrets that are common to both of them. However, when users are compromised, some of these
secrets are also compromised. Hence, to revoke the compromised users, the secrets known to these users need to be updated.
Many group key management solutions exist for revocation of users from a group. However, due to the limitations in adhoc networks,
i.e., lack of efficient broadcast mechanisms and lossy links, revocation of users is a challenging problem. In this paper,
we propose a revocation algorithm that combines the secret instantiation protocols with group key management protocols. Depending
on the combination of protocols used, our revocation algorithm provides deterministic or probabilistic guarantees for revocation.
We illustrate our revocation algorithm by combining the square grid protocol and the logical key hierarchy protocol.
Keywords: Secure Adhoc Networks, User Revocation, Secret Instantiation Protocols, Group Key Management Protocols.
This work is partially sponsored by NSF CAREER 0092724, ONR grant N00014-01-1-0744, DARPA contract F33615-01-C-1901, and a
grant from Michigan State University.
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