On the performance of group key agreement protocols

Author

Amir, Yair ; Kim, Yongdae ; Nita-Rotaru, Cristina ; Tsudik, Gene

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD, USA

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

463

Lastpage

464

Abstract

Group key agreement (GKA) is a fundamental building block for securing peer group communication systems (GCS). Several group key agreement protocols were proposed in the past, all assuming an underlying group communication infrastructure. This paper presents a performance evaluation of 5 notable GKA protocols integrated with a reliable group communication system (Spread). They are: centralized group key distribution (CKD), Burmester-Desmedt (BD), Steer et al. (STR), group Diffie-Hellman GDH) and tree-based group Diffie-Hellman (TGDH).. We present concrete results obtained in experiments on local- and wide-area networks. Our analysis of these results offers insights into their relative scalability and practicality.

Keywords

local area networks; performance evaluation; protocols; centralized group key distribution; group Diffie-Hellman agreement; group key agreement protocols; peer group communication systems; performance evaluation; reliable group communication system; tree-based group Diffie-Hellman agreement; Concrete; Costs; Distributed computing; Linux; Local area networks; Personal communication networks; Protocols; System testing; Telecommunication network reliability; Wide area networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Distributed Computing Systems, 2002. Proceedings. 22nd International Conference on

ISSN

1063-6927

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1585-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICDCS.2002.1022291

Filename

1022291