DGKD: Distributed Group Key Distribution with Authentication Capability

Authors

Pratima Adusumilli
Xukai Zou
Byrav Ramamurthy, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow

Date of this Version

2005

Comments

Published in Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE Workshop on Information Assurance and Security United States Military Academy, West Point, NY. Copyright 2005 IEEE. Used by permission.

Abstract

Group key management (GKM} is the most important issue in secure group communication (SCC). The existing GKM protocols fall into three typical classes: centralized group key distribution (CGKD), decentralized group key management (DGKM), and distributed/contributory group key agreement (CGKA). Serious problems remains in these protocols, as they require existence of central trusted entities (such as group controller or subgroup controllers), relaying of messages (by subgroup controllers), or strict member synchronization (JOT multiple round stepwise key agreement), thus suffering from the single point of failure and attack, performance bottleneck, or mis-operations in the situation of transmission delay or network failure. In this paper, we propose a new class of GKM protocols: distributed group key distribution (DGKD). The new DGKD protocol solves the above problems and surpasses the existing GKM protocols ZR terms of simplicity, efficiency, scalability, and robustness.