Title
On key distribution via true broadcasting
Abstract
We consider true broadcast systems for the secure communication of session keys. These schemes provide for parallel rather than serial construction of broadcast messages, while avoiding selective broadcasting. We begin by introducing a conceptual framework for true broadcasting and illustrate its design with a secure key broadcast scheme based on probabilistic encryption. The framework provides for a system requiring user anonymity, as a result of the absence of addressing for the broadcast message. We also illustrate how Shamir's threshold scheme can be altered to allow for parallel broadcasting. We then present a formal model and use information theoretic techniques to establish a lower bound on the size of the broadcast message for a class of true broadcast schemes. Finally, we improve upon the aforementioned threshold scheme such that it achieves the lower bound.
Year
DOI
Venue
1994
10.1145/191177.191195
ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security
Keywords
DocType
ISBN
true broadcasting,conceptual framework,true broadcast scheme,secure key broadcast scheme,key distribution,selective broadcasting,true broadcast system,threshold scheme,parallel broadcasting,aforementioned threshold scheme,broadcast message,secret sharing,secure communication,lower bound
Conference
0-89791-732-4
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
24
2.91
9
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mike Just1242.91
Evangelos Kranakis23107354.48
Danny Krizanc31778191.04
P. C. van Oorschot44230414.39