A broadcast encryption scheme with free-riders but unconditional security

  • Authors:
  • Andre Adelsbach;Ulrich Greveler

  • Affiliations:
  • Horst Görtz Institute for IT Security, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany;Horst Görtz Institute for IT Security, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany

  • Venue:
  • DRMTICS'05 Proceedings of the First international conference on Digital Rights Management: technologies, Issues, Challenges and Systems
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

We propose two schemes for efficient broadcast key establishment that enables a sender to communicate to any subset of the user-base by allowing a small ratio of free-riders. The schemes do not require stateful receivers and one scheme is unconditionally secure. The free-riders are unable to learn from the past whether they might become free-riders for a certain transmission again. We present a new trade-off facet for broadcast encryption, namely the number (or ratio) of free-riders vs. the number of messages to be sent or the number of keys stored by each user.