KEY AGREEMENT IN WIRELESS NETWORKS WITH ACTIVE ADVERSARIES

摘要

A network and related methods for transmitting processes in a network secretly and securely is described. The network use keys, through path-key establishment and a key pool bootstrapping, to ensure that packets are transmitted and received properly and secretly in the presence of one or more adversarial nodes.

主权项

1. A network of computers with error correction code configured to transmit keys secretly and securely comprising:
a first computer-based workstation operating as a source node and configured to encode a key into a plurality of distinct encoded source files, encoding being operatively implemented in one of: a) hardware, b) software, and c) a combination of a) and b); a plurality of computer-based workstations operating as a plurality of intermediate nodes and configured to each receive a distinct encoded source file of the plurality of distinct encoded source files and transmit, to a receiver node, the distinct encoded source file when requested by the receiver; and a second computer-based workstation operating as the receiver node and configured to decode the plurality of distinct encoded source files and retrieve the key, decoding being operatively implemented in one of: a) hardware, b) and/or software, and c) a combination of a) and b)