Dear Konstantinos Birkos

I feel interest about your thoughts.

Key refreshment  is an important issue to promise security of P2P overlay
network as well as other types of networks. Cost of key refreshment
mechanism, the architecture of key management, etc, lots of work should be
done.

2010/2/25 Konstantinos Birkos <[email protected]>

> Dear all,
>
> I would like to discuss the possibility of periodically refreshing the
> keying material of the participating peers in the overlay as well as
> certificate revocation in case malicious activity is detected.
> I am talking about each peer periodically creating new public/private key
> pairs and producing or receiving new certificates that bind its NodeID to
> the new public keys. A key refresh mechanism would put a barrier to
> attackers who could have compromised certain peers and would make attacks
> based on cryptanalysis tools even  more difficult.
> We are actually developing  a mechanism and we would like to discuss its
> applicability and its importance with the WG.
>
> Kind Regards,
> Konstantinos Birkos
> --
> Konstantinos Birkos
> PhD Candidate
> Wireless Telecommunication Laboratory
> Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
> University of Patras
> Patras, Greece
> Tel.: +30 2610 996465
>
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Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
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