HYBRID APPROACH FOR SECURE DATA COMMUNICATION FOR DECENTALIZED DISRUPTION-TOLERANT MILITARY NETWORKS

The information and communication technology of the present world has reached unimaginable progress breaking almost all the boundaries of imagination once perceived by the ancient man. Cryptography thus becomes an important area which provides the security of these pieces of information. The term Symmetric Cryptography employs the same key at the both ends of a message communication i.e. for both encryption and decryption. With the recent chains of calamitous events and enemy attacks, the thought of providing and supplying strong and almost never failing Disruption Tolerant Networks had been a major concern in most technocratic minds and information industries all over. The military networks share the same concern. Although a lot of encryption standards such as the DES, RSA and so on exist, none prove to be a widely accepted promising cryptographic solution like the Cipher text-policy attribute-based encryption (CP-ABE) to the access control issues. The proposed approach uses a novel method integrating the CP-ABE scheme along with fingerprint authenticated key distribution, thus the title “Hybrid Approach in Secure Data Communication.