• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.30 no.6C
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• pp.607-615
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• 2005

Group key agreement protocols are designed to allow a group of parties communicating over a public network to securely establish a common secret key. Over the years, a number of solutions to this problem have been proposed with varying degrees of complexity. However, there seems to have been no previous systematic look at the growing problem of key agreement over combined wired/wireless networks, consisting of both high-performance computing machines and low-power mobile devices. In this paper we present an efficient group key agreement scheme well suited for this networking environment. Our scheme meets efficiency, scalability, and all the desired security requirements.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.23 no.2
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• pp.53-61
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• 2018

In this paper, the author proposes an efficient group key agreement scheme in a mobile environment where group members frequently join and leave. This protocol consists of basic protocols and general ones and is expected to be suitable for communications between a mobile device with limited computing capability and a key distributing center (or base station) with sufficient computing capability. Compared with other schemes, the performance of the proposed protocol is a bit more efficient in the aspects of the overall cost for both communication and computation where the computational efficiency of the scheme is achieved by using exclusive or operations and a one-way hash function. Also, in the aspect of security, it guarantees both forward and backward secrecy based on the computational Diffie-Hellman (CDH) assumption so that secure group communication can be made possible. Furthermore, the author proves its security against a passive adversary in the random oracle model.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.101-110
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• 2003

Secure and reliable group communication is an increasingly active research area prompted by the growing popularity of many types of group-oriented and collaborative applications. The central 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. Most of prior group key agreement protocols have been focused on reducing the computational costs. One exception is STR protocol that optimizes communicational cost. On the other hand, it requires O(n) number of modular exponentiations. In this paper, we propose a new group key agreement protocol that modifies STR protocol by utilizing pairing based cryptography. The resulting protocol reduces computational cost of STR protocol while preserving the communication cost.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.16 no.5
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• pp.1687-1707
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• 2022

With the development of multiuser online meetings, more group-oriented technologies and applications for instance collaborative work are becoming increasingly important. Authenticated Group Key Agreement (AGKA) schemes provide a shared group key for users with after their identities are confirmed to guarantee the confidentiality and integrity of group communications. On the basis of the Public Key Cryptography (PKC) system used, AGKA can be classified as Public Key Infrastructure-based, Identity-based, and Certificateless. Because the latter type can solve the certificate management overhead and the key escrow problems of the first two types, Certificateless-AGKA (CL-AGKA) protocols have become a popular area of research. However, most CL-AGKA protocols are vulnerable to Public Key Replacement Attacks (PKRA) due to the lack of public key authentication. In the present work, we present a CL-AGKA scheme that can resist PKRA in order to solve impersonation attacks caused by those attacks. Beyond security, improving scheme efficiency is another direction for AGKA research. To reduce the communication and computation cost, we present a scheme with only one round of information interaction and construct a CL-AGKA scheme replacing the bilinear pairing with elliptic curve cryptography. Therefore, our scheme has good applicability to communication environments with limited bandwidth and computing capabilities.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.41-55
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• 2005

A group key agreement protocol allows a group of user to share a key which may later be used to achieve certain cryptographic goals. In this paper, we propose a new scalable two-round ID-based group key agreement protocol which would be well fit to a Pay-TV system, additionally. to the fields of internet stock quotes, audio and music deliveries, software updates and the like. Our protocol improves the three round poop key agreement protocol of Nam et al., resulting in upgrading the computational efficiency by using the batch verification technique in pairing-based cryptography. Also our protocol simplifies the key agreement procedures by utilizing ID-based system. We prove the security of our protocol under the Computational Diffie-Hellman assumption and the Bilinear Decisional Diffie-Hellman assumption. Also we analyze its efficiency.

• 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.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.11 no.7
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• pp.3678-3698
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• 2017

With the rapid development of vehicular ad hoc Network (VANET), it has gained significant popularity and received increasing attentions from both academics and industry communities in aspects of security and efficiency. To address the security and efficiency issues, a self-authentication and deniable efficient group key agreement protocol is proposed in this paper. The scheme establishes a group between road side units (RSUs) and vehicles by using self-authentication without certification authority, and improves certification efficiency by using group key (GK) transmission method. At the same time, to avoid the attacker attacking the legal vehicle by RSUs, we adopt deniable group key agreement method to negotiation session key (sk) and use it to transmit GK between RSUs. In addition, vehicles not only broadcast messages to other vehicles, but also communicate with other members in the same group. Therefore, group communication is necessary in VANET. Finally, the performance analysis shows superiority of our scheme in security problems, meanwhile the verification delay, transmission overheard and message delay get significant improvement than other related schemes.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.627-634
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• 2010

In this paper we suggest a group key agreement protocol among a group consisting more than 3 PKIs. From an 128 bit message, we produce a group key to any length size using a hash function. With a computer experiment we found that PKI's encryption/decryption time is the most dominant part of this procedure and an 160 bit ECC PKI is the most efficient system for distributing an 128 bit message in practical level. We implement this procedure over an unsecure multi user chatting system which is an open software. And we also show that this suggestion could be practically used in military business without a hardware implementation.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.89-100
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• 2002

In this paper, we propose a group key management architecture for the secure group communications in mobile netwowrks and authenticated key agreement protocol for this system. Most of existing group key management schemes un certificates based on the public key for the purpose of user authentication and key agreement in secure fashion however, we use the ICPK(Implicitly Certified Public key) to reduce the bandwidth for a certificate exchanging and to improve a computational efficiency. In this architecture, we use two-tier approach to deal with key management where the whole group is divided into two parts; the first is a cell groups consisted of mobile hosts and another is a control group consisted of cell group managers. This approach can provide flexibility of key management such that the affection for a membership change is locally restricted to the cell group which is an autonomous area of the CGM(Cell Group Manager).