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A Time-Bound and Hierarchical Key Management Scheme for Secure Multicast Systems

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In this paper, we have adopted elliptic curve multiplication operation, ID-based character in bilinear pairing, one-way hash function, and time access control to construct a time-bound hierarchical access control and key management scheme for multicast systems. In this scheme, central authority distributes a group key for every security class (SC) and a time-bound secret key for each member of security class. With its time-bound secret key, each member in SC can obtain a group key to decrypt the message and thereof utilize the group key to attain the group keys for successors so as to decrypt their data sets. Considering many common ways of dynamic access control, namely, a new member joining in the security class, an existing member departing from a security class, replacing time-bound key, increasing security class, decreasing security class, replacing group key, adding relationship and deleting relationship among SCs, all of them are explicitly discussed in this paper. In view of the security and performance analyses under many typical attacks, we thereby prove our proposed scheme can prevent malicious attacks effectively with less computation time and more reasonable complexity. In consequence, the proposed scheme offers a secure and hierarchical access control in multicast systems.

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The authors are very grateful to the anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments which have improved the quality of this paper. This work was supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan, under Grant MOST 103-2221-E-305-015.

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taipei University, 151, University Rd., Sanhsia, New Taipei City, 237, Taiwan

    Victor R. L. Shen

  2. Graduate Institute of Electrical Engineering, National Taipei University, 151, University Rd., Sanhsia, New Taipei City, 237, Taiwan

    Wei-Chieh Huang

  3. Department of Electronic Engineering, Ming Chi University of Technology, 84, Gungjuang Rd., Taishan District, New Taipei City, 24301, Taiwan

    Victor R. L. Shen

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Shen, V.R.L., Huang, WC. A Time-Bound and Hierarchical Key Management Scheme for Secure Multicast Systems. Wireless Pers Commun 85, 1741–1764 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-015-2865-5

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