Scalable and efficient approach for secure group communication using proxy cryptography

  • Authors:
  • Youngjoo Shin;Junbeom Hur

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, KAIST, Daejeon, Republic of Korea 305-701;School of Computer Science and Engineering, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

  • Venue:
  • Wireless Networks
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Multicast is a scalable solution for group communications. In order to offer security for multicast applications, a group key has to be changed whenever a member joins or leaves the group. This incurs 1-affects-n problem, which is a constraint on scalability. Decentralized approaches solve the scalability problem by dividing a group into several subgroups that use independent group keys. These approaches, however, introduce new challenges: problem of trusting third party and inefficiency of data delivery. Proxy encryption is a good approach to solve the problem of trusting third party. In this paper, we propose a novel secure multicast scheme using the proxy cryptography. The proposed scheme provides not only scalability but also data transmission efficiency by dynamic subgrouping of group members while intermediate data-relaying third parties are not required to be trusted.