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Design and Development of a Unified framework for Secure Group Communications |
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Author |
Nagesh H.R, K. Chandra Sekaran |
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Vol. 7 No. 7 pp. 321-330 |
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Abstract |
Many emerging network applications (e.g. teleconference, information services, distributed interactive simulation and collaborative network) are based on a group communications model. As a result, securing group communications, i.e., providing confidentiality, authenticity, and integrity of messages delivered between group members, will become networking issue. A secure group is a triple (U, K, R) where U denotes a set of users, K a set of keys held by the users, and R is a user-key relation. Secure groups are specified using key graphs. Three rekeying strategies: user-oriented, key-oriented, and group-oriented for securely distributing rekey messages after a join or leave are designed. Protocols for joining and leaving secure groups are designed and implemented. The rekeying strategies and join or leave protocols are implemented in a key server. This paper deals with design and development of a unified framework for secure group communications which implements join/leave protocols for all three rekeying strategies. The strategy is worked on client/server basis in a hierarchical fashion, structured as a tree with the server at the root and groups forming the nodes ending up in clients. The height of the tree has been kept as constant (=3). Because of this height, join and leave operations will become easier. Public key cryptosystem has been used for encryption, decryption of rekey messages, and original messages (key length=1024-bits). Behavior of the system for user-oriented, key-oriented, and group-oriented rekeying strategies is experimented and reported in this paper. Our implementation of secure group communications provides authentication, confidentiality and integrity of the messages delivered between the group members. |
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Keywords |
Confidentiality, Group communications, Group key management, Key distribution, Multicast, Privacy, Rekeying, Security |
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