Abstract
The major purpose of Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) is to provide safety-related message access for motorists to react or make a life-critical decision for road safety enhancement. Accessing safety-related information through the use of VANET communications, therefore, must be protected, as motorists may make critical decisions in response to emergency situations in VANETs. If introducing security services into VANETs causes considerable transmission latency or processing delays, this would defeat the purpose of using VANETs to improve road safety. Current research in secure messaging for VANETs appears to focus on employing certificate-based Public Key Cryptosystem (PKC) to support security. The security overhead of such a scheme, however, creates a transmission delay and introduces a time-consuming verification process to VANET communications. This paper proposes an efficient public key management system for VANETs: the Public Key Registry (PKR) system. Not only does this paper demonstrate that the proposed PKR system can maintain security, but it also asserts that it can improve overall performance and scalability at a lower cost, compared to the certificate-based PKC scheme. It is believed that the proposed PKR system will create a new dimension to the key management and verification services for VANETs.
Keywords
Non-certificate-based public key management system, VANETs, system design for VANETs, secure messaging in VANETs
ISBN
ISBN: [978-1-86435-644-1]; Full paper
Recommended Citation
Shen, Pei Yuan; Liu, Vicky; Tang, Maolin; and Caelli, William, "An Efficient Public Key Management System: An Application In Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks" (2011). PACIS 2011 Proceedings. 175.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/pacis2011/175