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  • Hierarchical CRGK Supporting a Secure Multicast Communication for a Large Number of Users

    Jihyun PARK  Jeongsu LEE  Jeonghyun KIM  Jaecheol RYOU  

     
    PAPER-Fundamental Theories for Communications

      Vol:
    E93-B No:4
      Page(s):
    862-870

    A multicast content service, including numerous devices, requires an efficient group key management scheme as one of its core components. The purpose of group key management is to provide a secure key-sharing scheme among the members of a group so that messages transmitted via broadcasting or multicasting are not exposed to non-members. The Chinese Remaindering Group Key (CRGK) is an efficient group key management scheme based on the Chinese Remainder Theorem (CRT). It optimizes the number of re-key messages, the user-side key computation cost, and the number of stored keys. However, CRGK is not fit for a group with a large number of members because of the high computation complexity of the CRT. In this paper, we propose a Hierarchical CRGK (HCRGK) scheme that supports a group with a large number of members. We improved CRGK by adopting it to include an n-ary tree structure. The tree approach simplifies the group key management by distributing the group key computation to subgroups. Our scheme requires at most (log m N + 1) re-key messages for a group with N members and a short computation time even when the group is very large.