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2009 Third International Conference on Network and System Security
Secure Authenticated Key Establishment Protocol for Ad Hoc Networks
Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
October 19-October 21
ISBN: 978-0-7695-3838-9
Multicast communication in dynamic environments like ad hoc networks are potentially of critical concern. As group members move in and out of the group, in order to preserve confidentiality, it becomes imperative to use cryptographic keys with rekeying mechanism each time a user enters or leaves. Therefore, in dynamic environments rekeying introduces a significant computational and communication overhead. The contribution of this paper is mainly twofold: (1) Exploiting the orthogonal principle this paper proposes a provably secure n-way cryptosystem, namely, Multicrypt. (2) Using the proposed n-way cryptosystem, this paper also proposes a new secure authenticated key establishment (SAKE) protocol. The proposed SAKE decouples membership change and rekeying. SAKE has less join and leave latency, bandwidth, work per data and control packets by then reducing the communicational and computational overheads. SAKE does not require stateful members due to the use of multiple keys for encryption. Since it uses multiple keys, a compromise of one member does not compromise the group. Multicrypt is a provably secure n-way cryptosystem which uses keys per user and keys per sub-controller where is the number of users in the current membership view and is the number of sub-groups. It supports dynamic member addition and revocation in SAKE. Multicrypt is proved to be IND-CCA and IND-CCA2 secure.
Index Terms:
Key management, Multicast Security, Multicrypt, N-way Cryptosystem
Citation:
A. John Prakash, V. Rhymend Uthariaraj, "Secure Authenticated Key Establishment Protocol for Ad Hoc Networks," nss, pp.87-94, 2009 Third International Conference on Network and System Security, 2009
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