Title :
Massey Omura multiple users key distribution
Author :
Merlanti, Danilo ; Mazzini, Gianluca
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Eng., Univ. of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy
Abstract :
We address a simple protocol that can be used to distribute a shared key to three or more users over an insecure channel. We use the Elgamal protocol to set up the system and we define a generalization of Massey Omura protocol to allow one user to send a message or a shared key to a group of users. Moreover we analyse some problems about the decryption shared key of Massey Omura generalized protocol and the man-in-the-middle problem.
Keywords :
cryptographic protocols; Elgamal protocol; Massey Omura multiple users key distribution; Massey Omura protocol; decryption shared key; insecure channel; man-in-the-middle problem; Elliptic curves; Encryption; Protocols; Public key; Reliability; Elgamal; Man-In-the-Middle; Massey Omura; Multiple Users; decryption key; encryption key; key distribution;
Conference_Titel :
Software, Telecommunications and Computer Networks (SoftCOM), 2011 19th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Split
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1439-9