Dynamic key management in a user hierarchy

Author

He, Zhong-hua ; Li, Yong-Sheng

Author_Institution

Sch. of Math. & Comput. Sci., Guangxi Univ. for Nat., Nanning

fYear

2008

Firstpage

298

Lastpage

300

Abstract

Secure secret communication in a hierarchy is widely used in the e-commerce, e-government affairs or the other systems with a hierarchy structure. A one-way key management scheme for an encryption system in a hierarchy based on the one-way hash function is proposed in this paper. In which one group can obtain the key of its subordinate group securely and easily, but the opposite is not allowed. It is easy to add or delete a security group and it is easy to change the key of a security group. This scheme has the characteristics of needing low computation and low storage, being high distributed and having parallel computing.

Keywords

cryptography; dynamic key management; encryption system; one-way hash function; one-way key management scheme; secure secret communication; user hierarchy; Computer science; Computer security; Concurrent computing; Cryptography; Electronic government; Graphics; Helium; Information security; Mathematics; National security; Key management; hierarchy; one-way hash function; security group;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Anti-counterfeiting, Security and Identification, 2008. ASID 2008. 2nd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Guiyang

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2584-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2585-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IWASID.2008.4688404

Filename

4688404