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Secured Key Management Scheme for Multicast Network Using Graphical Password

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In recent days, management of keys in a group has become a significant part of data communication. The textual and alphanumerical passwords used for security concern have now changed its trend to different graphical passwords procedures. Many researchers have introduced various efficient and scalable key management schemes and it is difficult to remember this type of password. There are many textual password authentication mechanisms now available in the software market and are prone to eavesdropping, dictionary attacks and shoulder surfing. To address all the above vulnerability, many researchers and practitioners have developed different authentication methods who are interested in finding an alternate way to the existing problem. Hence, this paper proposes a secure group communication scheme between group members using graphical passwords and this is easy to remember compared to a textual password but difficult to hack. The elliptic curve cryptography technique is applied for key distribution. The group key is a graphical password which is static and shared among all the members in a group. The sequence of images will be sent to the members/users of a group during registration to form a group key and the group controller sends a pass point value of each image to the member by using elliptic curve cryptography after the registration. The main focus of the proposed scheme is to provide better security and ensures negligible communication overhead and computation overhead.

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  1. Sri Krishna College of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, India

    S. Lavanya

  2. Vivekanandha College of Engineering for Women, Tiruchengode, Tamilnadu, India

    N. M. SaravanaKumar & S. Thilagam

  3. VIT University, Chennai, Tamilnadu, India

    V. Vijayakumar

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Lavanya, S., SaravanaKumar, N.M., Vijayakumar, V. et al. Secured Key Management Scheme for Multicast Network Using Graphical Password. Mobile Netw Appl 24, 1152–1159 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11036-019-01252-4

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