Secured wireless ad-hoc network administration scheme

摘要

Most security policies of wireless ad-hoc networks prohibit the system administrator to use a wireless channel to admin the system. The same holds for administrating firewall and proxy servers. On the other hand, personal mobile device is becoming one of the most important equipments carried permanently by its owner. This fact enables accommodating many person-specific authentications and applications in that device. The device includes moderate computation power as well as trusted security functions. The device security infrastructure can allow implementing both trustable and traceable applications. In this work we present a mechanism to enhance the security of administrating ad-hoc network by participating a secured mobile device identity in the authentication process. The proposed technique offers a wireless web tunneling, which permits the designated administrator to access the internal web services. The device, from which the administrator is performing his job, would be a part of the authentication process. In that case the authenticated device identity is jointly used with a secured administrator identity to enhance the security and tractability of sensitive administration operations. The proposal introduces implicitly, and in general, a framework for a mobile device assisted authentication.