Leveraging social contacts for message confidentiality in delay tolerant networks

Proceedings - International Computer Software and Applications Conference

Volumn 1, Issue , 2009, Pages 271-279

  El Defrawy, Karim ^a   Solis, John ^a   Tsudik, Gene ^a  

^a Ringgold Standard Institution Informatics   (United States)

Author keywords

Delay Tolerant Networks; Message Confidentiality; Secure Messaging

Indexed keywords

DELAY TOLERANT NETWORKS; DISRUPTION TOLERANT NETWORKS; MESSAGE INTEGRITY; NODE MOBILITY; REAL-WORLD; SECURE CONTEXTS; SECURITY ANALYSIS; SECURITY SERVICES; SOCIAL NETWORKS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; BLOCK CODES; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; NETWORK SECURITY; RURAL AREAS; WORD PROCESSING;

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS;

EID: 70449632776     PISSN: 07303157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/COMPSAC.2009.43     Document Type: Conference Paper

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