Hydra: A Decentralised Group Key Management

  • Authors:
  • Sandro Rafaeli;David Hutchison

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • WETICE '02 Proceedings of the 11th IEEE International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: nfrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

Hydra is a scaleable decentralised architecture to create and distribute symmetric cryptographic keys to large multicast-based groups. The group is divided into a number of TTL-scoped regions in order to achieve flexible and efficient key management, particularly in face of group membership changes. Hydra does not employ a manager for subgroup managers, and hence, it is not vulnerable to failures of single entities.