Secure Networking Protocol with Identity Protection for Cooperation of Unmanned Platforms

The cooperation of unmanned platforms needs dynamic networking for the secure group communication. Based on the different security domain of wireless environments, an secure networking protocol with identity protection for cooperation of unmanned platforms are proposed, which consists of a four-party security information exchange protocol for the data transmission between nodes in the dynamic network and an ID-based anonymous authentication scheme for the secure session keys of a node, which supports the combination of the decryption process and the identity protection. Finally, we show that the session key has the security characters of unforgeability, confidentiality and non-repudiation, and the new protocol has a secure, flexible and efficient method of key management for dynamic networking.