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
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