A Secure Data Dissemination in a DHT-Based Routing Paradigm for Wireless Ad Hoc Network

Table 4

Security evaluation of our protocol.

Attacks	How our protocol refuses the attacks
Access to user data in physical devices	User/password access
Compromised physical devices	Visual identity verification (authentication phase)
Identity impersonation	Visual identity verification (authentication phase); trust policies
Phishing, active spoofing, compromised data	Hashing and authentication; Use of trusted chain
Data modification, compromised data	Hash function to guarantee data integrity
Lost data because of failure and battery discharge	Authentication
Compromised node	Use of algorithm to identify compromised nodes; Change of trust level, trust elimination
Denial of service/data availability	Distributed data management and storage; Distributed access to data services; Distributed security processes
Loss of connectivity	Authentication