Security of Chien's Efficient Time-Bound Hierarchical Key Assignment Scheme

  • Authors:
  • Xun Yi

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Recently, Chien proposed a time-bound hierarchical key assignment scheme based on tamper-resistant devices. Without public key cryptography, Chien's scheme greatly reduces computation load and implementation cost. In this paper, we show that Chien's scheme is insecure against a collusion attack whereby three users conspire to access some secret class keys that they should not know according to Chien's scheme.