• DocumentCode
    890533
  • Title

    Disenrollment with perfect forward secrecy in threshold schemes

  • Author

    Li, Mingyan ; Poovendran, Radha

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
  • Volume
    52
  • Issue
    4
  • fYear
    2006
  • fDate
    4/1/2006 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    1676
  • Lastpage
    1682
  • Abstract
    In this correspondence, we propose a new model for threshold schemes with disenrollment capability (TSDC), to address the scenarios in which the ability of a coalition to construct future shared secrets is prohibited. Compared to existing TSDC models, our model provides forward secrecy by adding a constraint that the broadcast from the dealer is required to activate the reconstruction of any secret. We also present a TSDC model in which the dealer has the enhanced capability of disenrolling any subset of participants, to prevent the otherwise unnecessary rekey of the entire group when a large number of participants are compromised. We establish the lower bounds on the entropy of broadcast messages in both proposed models, as guidelines on constructing broadcast efficient schemes, and present bound achieving schemes.
  • Keywords
    broadcast channels; cryptography; entropy; telecommunication security; TSDC; broadcast message entropy; perfect forward secrecy; threshold scheme-disenrollment capability; Broadcasting; Cryptography; Engineering profession; Entropy; Guidelines; Protection; Security; Broadcast; collusion; entropy; secret sharing; threshold schemes with disenrollment capability (TSDC);
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9448
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TIT.2006.871050
  • Filename
    1614091