Citation

Clulow J, Moore T. Oper. Syst. Rev. (ACM) 2006; 40(3): 18-21.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2006)

DOI

10.1145/1151374.1151381

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

We consider the problem of credential revocation in self-organizing systems. In the absence of a common trusted authority, reaching a decision is slow, expensive and prone to manipulation. We propose a radical, new strategy-suicide for the common good - which drastically simplifies the decision-making process and revocation orders. Our mechanism is fully decentralized, incurs low communication and storage overhead, enables fast removal of misbehaving nodes, and is ideally suited to highly mobile networks.