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International Conference on Networks Security, Wireless Communications and Trusted Computing (NSWCTC)

A Complete Anonymous Group Key Agreement Protocol

Gang Yao, Dengguo Feng

Published Jan 1, 2010• 7 citations
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Abstract

Identity-based key agreement protocols allow the participants in a group exchange information over an open network with each other. However, in most of proposed IDbased protocol, identities of group users are exposed, so that eavesdroppers can easily learn who belongs to the specific group. In this paper, we proposed a complete anonymous group key agreement protocol based on the Burmester and Desmedt mechanism and ID-based encryption cryptosystems. The proposed protocol is provably-secure in the random oracle model, and achieves the following security attribute: complete anonymity, unlinkability, group key secrecy, perfect forward secrecy for the group session key and entity authentication.

DOI
10.1109/nswctc.2010.217

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Group key agreement protocol allows all the members to agree upon a common session key, which may be used for later secure communication among all the participants. Through incorporating ID-based authenticated two-party key agreement protocol proposed by McCullagh et al. and constant round group key agreement proposed by Burmester and Desmedt, we propose a new ID-based two round authenticated group key agreement protocol which is more efficient than previously proposed protocols in terms of both communication and computation cost.