In the current public-key infrastructure (PKI) schemes based on X.509, a relying party must validate a user’s certificate as well as the existence of a path from its trust point...
Nested certification is a methodology for efficient certificate path verification. Nested certificates can be used together with classical certificates in the Public Key Infrastru...
: Constructing a certification path is the mainly method of validating a certificate at given time. The established path will consist of all the valid certificates that reside betw...
A Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANET) is characterized by the lack of any infrastructure, absence of any kind of centralized administration, frequent mobility of nodes, network partitio...
Trust models provide a framework to create and manage trust relationships among the different entities of a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI). These trust relationships are verified ...