DDH-based group key agreement in a mobile environment

  • Authors:
  • Junghyun Nam;Jinwoo Lee;Seungjoo Kim;Dongho Won

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Information and Communication Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, 300 Chunchun-dong, Jangan-gu, Suwon, Gyeonggi-do 440-746, Republic of Korea;School of Information and Communication Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, 300 Chunchun-dong, Jangan-gu, Suwon, Gyeonggi-do 440-746, Republic of Korea;School of Information and Communication Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, 300 Chunchun-dong, Jangan-gu, Suwon, Gyeonggi-do 440-746, Republic of Korea;School of Information and Communication Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, 300 Chunchun-dong, Jangan-gu, Suwon, Gyeonggi-do 440-746, Republic of Korea

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Systems and Software
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

A group key agreement protocol is designed to efficiently implement secure multicast channels for a group of parties communicating over an untrusted, open network by allowing them to agree on a common secret key. In the past decade many problems related to group key agreement have been tackled and solved (diminished if not solved), and recently some constant-round protocols have been proven secure in concrete, realistic setting. However, all forward-secure protocols so far are still too expensive for small mobile devices. In this paper we propose a new constant-round protocol well suited for a mobile environment and prove its security under the decisional Diffie-Hellman assumption. The protocol meets simplicity, efficiency, and all the desired security properties.