Identity deployment and management in wireless mesh networks

Abstract

This paper introduces the problem of combining security and privacy-friendly provisioning in wireless mesh network environments. We present a set of non-functional requirements for a privacy-friendly identity management (IdM) system suitable for wireless mesh networks and derive another set of security and privacy properties for digital identifiers to be used in such networks. Later, we compare two existing identifiers, anonymous attribute certificates and anonymous credentials, and verify if any of those conforms to our set of defined properties. A business model and some business cases are presented to support and justify the need for a privacy-friendly IdM system not only from the security and privacy perspective, but also from a business-enabler perspective. © 2008 International Federation for Information Processing.