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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals

Conference Key Supervision in a Level-Based Hierarchy

Ching-Te WANG, Chin-Chen CHANG, Chu-Hsing LIN

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In this paper, we propose a new conference key distribution scheme and the supervision of a conference when users are in a level-based hierarchy. In a conference key distribution system, one message is transmitted to the participants from a chairman, a legitimate member can decrypt it and reveal the common session key. The proposed scheme can be implemented without using any tamper-proof hardware. For users in a level-based hierarchy, by applying the key distribution scheme, the higher priority users can derive the conference key and supervise the lower level users' communications. Further, the users in the same level who are not members of the conference or in lower levels can not expose the conference key. To break the common session key, a malicious user has to suffer from the difficulty of factorization and discrete logarithm problems.

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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals Vol.E81-A No.10 pp.2219-2227
Publication Date
1998/10/25
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Information Security

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