A Key Management Mechanism for DHT Networks

Author

Zhang Wen ; Niu Shao-Zhang ; Zou Jian-Cheng

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. Sci., Beijing Univ. of Posts & Telecommun., Beijing, China

fYear

2012

fDate

18-20 July 2012

Firstpage

339

Lastpage

342

Abstract

This paper proposes a key management mechanism by DH distributed key tree for the DHT network, which is based on the DHT network routing mechanism and network topology structure. The scheme uses the DH algorithm for key agreement, to ensure that the nodes in the DHT network are able to maintain a limited number of keys, and on this basis to complete encryption of routing messages across the network. The key management mechanism provides a secure shared key for the data encryption between the nodes in the DHT network, and maintains a high degree of consistency with the DHT network topology structure, and it has broad application prospects.

Keywords

computer network security; cryptography; peer-to-peer computing; telecommunication network routing; DH distributed key tree; DHT network routing mechanism; data encryption; key agreement; key management mechanism; network topology structure; peer-to-peer computing; routing message encryption; secure shared key; DH-HEMTs; Encryption; Internet; Network topology; Peer to peer computing; Routing; Diffie-Hellman; Distributed Hash Table; Key Management; Key Tree;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing (IIH-MSP), 2012 Eighth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Piraeus

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1741-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IIH-MSP.2012.88

Filename

6274249