Li, X.Slay, J.2025-12-172025-12-172004Proceedings of the Fifth Australian Information Warfare and Security Conference: From Information Warfare to Information Operations, 2004, pp.1-59780729805698https://hdl.handle.net/1959.8/26788Achieving secure communication is especially challenging in wireless ad hoc networks, where no infrastructure or central authority exists, and the state and topology of the network is dynamic and fault-prone. These unique characteristics of wireless ad hoc networks make traditional cryptographic mechanisms and assumptions in appropriate. In this paper, we propose mobile agents as a solution to the key management for wireless ad hoc networks and examine the feasibility of such a solutionenCopyright 2004 The author(s)Conference paper