Abstract. Key agreement protocols are a fundamental building block for ensuring authenticated and private communications between two parties over an insecure network. This paper fo...
Covert channels are used for the secret transfer of information. Encryption only protects communication from being decoded by unauthorised parties, whereas covert channels aim to ...
Sebastian Zander, Grenville J. Armitage, Philip Br...
In an open networking environment, a workstation usually needs to identify its legal users for providing its services. Kerberos provides an efficient approach whereby a trusted th...
Key agreement (KA) allows two or more users to negotiate a secret session key among them over an open network. Authenticated key agreement (AKA) is a KA protocol enhanced to preve...
Lei Zhang 0009, Futai Zhang, Qianhong Wu, Josep Do...
The TCP protocol exhibits poor performance in multi-hop Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs). The ultimate reason for this is that MANETs behave in a significantly different way from ...