TITLE:
Tree-Based Revocation for Certificateless Authentication in Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks
AUTHORS:
Pino Caballero-Gil, Francisco Martín-Fernández, Cándido Caballero-Gil
KEYWORDS:
K-Ary Tree, Identity-Based Cryptography, Revocation, Hash Function, Vehicular Ad-Hoc Network
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Computer and Communications,
Vol.2 No.9,
July
11,
2014
ABSTRACT:
This work proposes authentication based on
identity as a way to increase the efficiency and security of communications in
vehicular ad-hoc networks. When using identity-based cryptography to achieve
certificateless authentication, membership revocation is not a trivial problem.
Thus, in order to improve the performance of revocation in such networks, the
use of a dynamic authenticated data structure based on perfect k-ary hash trees
combined with a duplex version of the new standard SHA-3 is here presented.
Efficient algorithms in the used revocation trees allow reaching a refresh rate
of at most simple updates per inserted node. Consequently, the proposal is especially
useful for situations with frequent revocations, which are foreseeable when
vehicular ad- hoc networks are widely deployed.