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We present some properties of trust establishment in mobile, ad-hoc networks and illustrate how they differ from those of trust establishment in the Internet. We motivate these differences by providing an example of ad-hoc network use in battlefield scenarios, yet equally practical examples can be found in non-military environments. We argue that peer-to-peer networks are especially suitable to solve the problems of generation, distribution, and discovery of trust evidence in mobile ad-hoc networks, and illustrate the importance of evaluation metrics in trust establishment.
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Eschenauer, L., Gligor, V.D., Baras, J. (2004). On Trust Establishment in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks. In: Christianson, B., Crispo, B., Malcolm, J.A., Roe, M. (eds) Security Protocols. Security Protocols 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2845. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39871-4_6
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