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Tree-based Group Key Agreement

Authors:
Yongdae Kim
Adrian Perrig
Gene Tsudik
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URL: http://eprint.iacr.org/2002/009
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Abstract: Secure and reliable group communication is an active area of research. Its popularity is caused by the growing importance of group-oriented and collaborative applications. The central research challenge is secure and efficient group key management. While centralized methods are often appropriate for key distribution in large multicast-style groups, many collaborative group settings require distributed key agreement techniques. This work investigates a novel group key agreement approach which blends so-called key trees with Diffie-Hellman key exchange. It yields a secure protocol suite (TGDH) that is both simple and fault-tolerant. Moreover, the efficiency of TGDH appreciably surpasses that of prior art.
BibTeX
@misc{eprint-2002-11533,
  title={Tree-based Group Key Agreement},
  booktitle={IACR Eprint archive},
  keywords={cryptographic protocols / Collaborative security, Diffie-Hellman protocol, dynamic peer groups, key establishment/agreement protocols},
  url={http://eprint.iacr.org/2002/009},
  note={ kyongdae@ics.uci.edu 11725 received 19 Jan 2002, last revised 6 Feb 2002},
  author={Yongdae Kim and Adrian Perrig and Gene Tsudik},
  year=2002
}