Key establishment for IGMP authentication in IP multicast

Author

Hardjono, Thomas ; Cain, Brad

Author_Institution

Adv. Networks Group, Nortel Networks, Billerica, MA, USA

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

247

Lastpage

252

Abstract

The current work discusses an approach for delivering cryptographic keys to host-members in a multicast group and their respective multicast-routers running the IGMP protocol. Currently, no control message authentication exists in IGMP(v2) due the lack of mechanisms for key management at the subnet level for multicast groups. The proposed approach makes use of the existing group key management protocol deployed for host-members of a group to deliver the IGMP keying material to the host. It also makes use of the multicast distribution-tree to deliver the necessary keying material to the multicast-routers

Keywords

cryptography; message authentication; multicast communication; telecommunication network routing; transport protocols; IGMP authentication; IGMP protocol; IGMP(v2); IP multicast; cryptographic keys delivery; group key management protocol; multicast distribution-tree; multicast group; multicast-routers; Access control; Authentication; Broadcasting; Cryptography; Distributed databases; Drives; Intelligent networks; Multicast protocols; Security; Switches;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Universal Multiservice Networks, 2000. ECUMN 2000. 1st European Conference on

Conference_Location

Colmar

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6419-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ECUMN.2000.880748

Filename

880748