An efficient identity-based secret key management scheme for MANETs

This paper put forward an identity-based key management scheme for mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs), it provids an efficient secret key management mechanism for security schemes, which be implemented over any cyclic group in that the strong Diffie-Hellman problem is supposed to be hard. By employing identity-based and threshold cryptography, the proposed scheme eliminates the burden of certificates management and can be high level tolerance to node compromise. The scheme is based on threshold Schnorr signature (TSch), for higher efficiency, we transform TSch to a simpler form, donated by SimpleTSch, and prove that SimpleTSch is unforgeable under passive attacks in the random oracle model. However, to cope with active attacks, we enforce the security by introducing Fiore et al's key agreement. We can say that the proposed key management scheme gives lots of help for design of security protocols in MANETs.