The basic motivation behind this paper is to demonstrate a
solution for a group key management. The real concern is to
provide security issues in such framework, and how to deal with
the cryptographic keys that are required. To design functional and
adequate key management frameworks, it is important to
recognize attributes of the mobile ad hoc network and why
traditional key management frameworks can't be utilized. The
purpose of the key management is to give secure ways to handle
the cryptographic keying generation, distribution, and the key
maintenance. In this paper, we propose an effective key
management technique, called a Transition Key Management
Scheme (TKMS), for a mobile ad hoc network that is based on nparties
Diffie Hellman protocol. Using transient keys is to oversee
temporally members who recently joined the network group.
TKMS expects to minimize the key management overhead in the
network because of highly dynamic sessions of membership
comparing with the other techniques.