Paper 2013/100

Attacks and Comments on Several Recently Proposed Key Management Schemes

Niu Liu, Shaohua Tang, and Lingling Xu

Abstract

In this paper, we review three problematic key management(KM) schemes recently proposed, including Kayam’s scheme for groups with hierarchy [9], Piao’s group KM scheme [13], Purushothama’s group KM schemes [15]. We point out the problems in each scheme. Kayam’s scheme is not secure to collusion attack. Piao’s group KM scheme is not secure and has a bad primitive. The hard problem it bases is not really hard. Purushothama’s scheme has a redundant design that costs lots of resources and doesn’t give an advantage to the security evel and dynamic efficiency of it. We also briefly analyze the underlying reasons why these problem emerge.

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Category
Cryptographic protocols
Publication info
Published elsewhere. Unknown status
Keywords
key management schemeshierarchical access controlcollusion attack
Contact author(s)
csshtang @ gmail com
History
2014-05-21: last of 2 revisions
2013-02-27: received
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Short URL
https://ia.cr/2013/100
License
Creative Commons Attribution
CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2013/100,
      author = {Niu Liu and Shaohua Tang and Lingling Xu},
      title = {Attacks and Comments on Several Recently Proposed Key Management Schemes},
      howpublished = {Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2013/100},
      year = {2013},
      note = {\url{https://eprint.iacr.org/2013/100}},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2013/100}
}
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