A secure time-bound hierarchical key management scheme based on ECC for mobile agents

International Journal of Innovative Computing, Information and Control

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 2159-2170

  Huang, Jen Yan ^a   Chung, Yu Fang ^b   Chen, Tzer Shyong ^b   Liao, I En ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b TUNGHAI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Access control; Elliptic curve cryptosystem; Key management; Mobile agent; Time bound key management

Indexed keywords

AGENT MODEL; CORE COMPETENCIES; ELLIPTIC CURVE CRYPTOSYSTEM; ENCRYPTION/DECRYPTION; ENVIRONMENT DETECTION; HIERARCHICAL KEY MANAGEMENT SCHEME; HIERARCHICAL MOBILE; INFORMATION SECURITY TECHNOLOGIES; KEY MANAGEMENT; TIME-BOUND KEY MANAGEMENT; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS;

ACCESS CONTROL; CRYPTOGRAPHY; GEOMETRY; MANAGEMENT; SECURITY SYSTEMS; STRATEGIC PLANNING; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

MOBILE AGENTS;

EID: 77953016558     PISSN: 13494198     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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