Authentication and authorization in PeerHood System

Abstract

The goal of this work is to design and implement authentication and authorization section to PeerHood system. PeerHood system is developedin Lappeenranta University of Technology. It provides functions of discovering devices compatible with PeerHood and listing services offered by those devices; based on wireless technologies: Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPRS. The thesis describes implementation of the security approach intomobile Ad-Hoc environment and includes both authentication and authorization processes.