Chinese Remainder Theorem Based Hierarchical Access Control for Secure Group Communication

  • Authors:
  • Xukai Zou;Byrav Ramamurthy;Spyros S. Magliveras

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • ICICS '01 Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Information and Communications Security
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

Secure group communication with hierarchical access control refers to a scenario where a group of members is divided into a number of subgroups located at different privilege levels and a high-level subgroup can receive and decrypt messages within any of its descendant lower-level subgroups; but the converse is not allowed. In this paper, we propose a new scheme CRTHACS, which is based on the Chinese Remainder Theorem. The scheme not only enables secure hierarchical control but also provides the following properties: hiding of hierarchy and receivers, authentication of both senders and messages, and a mechanism for the receiver to directly derive the key of a message.