Comment on "Reparable key distribution protocols for Internet environments" [with reply]

For original paper see Hwang and Ku (IEEE Trans. Commun., vol.43, p.1947-9, 1995 May). The present authors find that the key distribution protocol KDP2 proposed in the original paper is, in fact, not reparable, as was claimed by the original authors. A reparable revised version of this KPD2 is then introduced. In a reply Hwang presents an example to show that the Lin et al. revised reparable KDP2 did not solve the problem which they proposed.