• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.418-428
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• 2012

With the requirement for providing multiple levels of access control for group members, many group key management schemes designed for hierarchical access control have been put forward. However, most of these schemes focus on the efficiency of group key establishment and rekeying in centralized environments. This paper proposes an integrated group key agreement (IGK) scheme for contributory environments. The IGK scheme employs the integrated key graph to remove key redundancies existing in single key trees, and reduces key establishment and rekeying time while providing hierarchical access control. Performance analyses and simulations conducted with respect to computation and communication overheads indicate that our proposed IGK scheme is more efficient than the independent group key agreement scheme.

• Journal of KIISE:Information Networking
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• v.36 no.4
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• pp.263-274
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• 2009

Decentralized group key management mechanisms offer beneficial solutions to enhance the scalability and reliability of a secure multicast framework by confining the impact of a membership change in a local area. However, many of the previous decentralized solutions reveal the plaintext to the intermediate relaying proxies, or require the key distribution center to coordinate secure group communications between subgroups. In this study, we propose a decentralized group key management scheme that features a mechanism allowing a service provider to deliver the group key to valid members in a distributed manner using the proxy cryptography. In the proposed scheme, the key distribution center is eliminated while data confidentiality of the transmitted message is provided during the message delivery process. The proposed scheme can support a secure group communication in dynamic network environments where there is no trusted central controller for the whole network and the network topology changes frequently.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• v.8 no.5
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• pp.549-553
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• 2010

Lim et al. proposed a Hybrid Group Key Management scheme for Hierarchical Self-Organizing Sensor Network in 2008 to provide a secure way to pass down the group key for cluster-based communication. This paper presents two practical attacks on the scheme proposed by Lim et al. by tampering sensor nodes of a cluster to recover necessary secret keys and by exploiting the IDS employed by the scheme. The first attack enables a long-term but slow data fabrication while other attack causes more severe DoS on the access to cluster sensor nodes.

• Journal of KIISE:Information Networking
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• v.30 no.6
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• pp.705-713
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• 2003

For group security to protect group data or to charge, group keys should be updated via key update messages when the membership of group changes. If we lose these messages, it is not possible to decrypt the group data and so this is why the recovery of lost keys is very significant. Any message lost during a certain member is logged off can not be recovered in real-time. Saving all messages and resending them by KDC (Key Distribution Center) not only requests large saving spaces, but also causes to transmit and decrypt unnecessary keys. This paper analyzes the problem of the loss of key update messages along with other problems that may arise during member login procedure, and also gives an efficient method for recovering group keys and auxiliary keys. This method provides that group keys and auxiliary keys can be recovered and sent effectively using information stored in key-tree. The group key generation method presented in this paper is simple and enable us to recover any group key without storing. It also eliminates the transmissions and decryptions of useless auxiliary keys.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.3 no.5
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• pp.87-94
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• 2002

This paper proposes a group key management protocol for a secure of all the multcast user in PIM-SM multicast group communication. Each subgroup manager gives a secure key to it's own transmitter and the transmitter compress the data with it's own secure key from the subgroup manager, Before the transmitter send the data to receiver, the transmitter prepares to encrypt a user's service by sending a encryption key to the receiver though the secure channel. after checking the user's validity through the secure channel, As the transmitter sending a data after then, the architecture is designed that the receiver will decode the received data with the transmitter's group key, Therefore, transmission time is shortened because there is no need to data translation by the group key on data sending and the data transmition is possible without new key distribution at path change to shortest path of the router characteristic.

• Convergence Security Journal
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.19-27
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• 2002

This paper proposes a group key management protocol for a secure of all the multicast user in PIM-SM multicast group communication. Each subgroup manager gives a secure key to it's own transmitter and the transmitter compress the data with it's own secure key from the subgroup manager. Before the transmitter send the data to receiver, the transmitter prepares to encrypt a user's service by sending a encryption key to the receiver though the secure channel, after checking the user's validity through the secure channel. As the transmitter sending a data after then, the architecture is designed that the receiver will decode the received data with the transmitter's group key. Therefore, transmission time is shortened because there is no need to data translation by the group key on data sending and the data transmition is possible without new key distribution at path change to shortest path of the router characteristic.

• Convergence Security Journal
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.99-107
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• 2002

This paper proposes a group key management protocol for a secure of all the multicast user in PIM-SM multicast group communication under electronic commerce. Each subgroup manager gives a secure key to it's own transmitter and the transmitter compress the data with it's own secure key from the subgroup manager. Before the transmitter send the data to receiver, the transmitter prepares to encrypt a user's service by sending a encryption key to the receiver though the secure channel, after checking the user's validity through the secure channel. As the transmitter sending a data after then, the architecture is designed that the receiver will decode the received data with the transmitter's group key. Therefore, transmission time is shortened because there is no need to data translation by the group key on data sending and the data transmition is possible without new key distribution at path change to shortest path of the router characteristic.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.77-89
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• 2001

Recently, with the explosive growth of communication technologies, group oriented services such as teleconference and multi-player game are increasing. Access control to information is handled by secret communications with group keys shared among members, and efficient updating of group keys is vital to such secret communications of large and dynamic groups. In this paper, we employ (2,4)-tree as a key tree, which is one of height balanced trees, to reduce the number of key updates caused by join or leave of members. Especially, we use CBT(Core Based Tree) to gather network configurations of group members and reflect this information to key tree structure to update group keys efficiently when splitting or merging of subgroups occurs by network failure or recovery.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.149-165
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• 2013

Current group key agreement protocols, which are often tree-based, have unnecessary delays that are caused when members with low-performance computer systems join a group key computation process. These delays are caused by the computations necessary to balance a key tree after membership changes. An alternate approach to group key generation that reduces delays is the dynamic prioritizing mechanism of queue-based group key generation. We propose an efficient group key agreement protocol and present the results of performance evaluation tests of this protocol. The queue-based approach that we propose is scalable and requires less computational overhead than conventional tree-based protocols.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.7 no.7
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• pp.1737-1753
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• 2013

Current group key agreement protocols, which are often tree-based, have unnecessary delays that are caused when members with low-performance computer systems join a group key computation process. These delays are caused by the computations necessary to balance a key tree after membership changes. An alternate approach to group key generation that reduces delays is the dynamic prioritizing mechanism of queue-based group key generation. We propose an efficient group key agreement protocol and present the results of performance evaluation tests of this protocol. The queue-based approach that we propose is scalable and requires less computational overhead than conventional tree-based protocols.