An Authenticated Asymmetric Group Key Agreement for Imbalanced Mobile Networks

ZHANG Qikun; ZHANG Quanxin; MA Zhongmei; TAN Yu'an

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ZHANG Qikun, ZHANG Quanxin, MA Zhongmei, et al., “An Authenticated Asymmetric Group Key Agreement for Imbalanced Mobile Networks,” Chinese Journal of Electronics, vol. 23, no. 4, pp. 827-835, 2014,

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ZHANG Qikun, ZHANG Quanxin, MA Zhongmei, et al., “An Authenticated Asymmetric Group Key Agreement for Imbalanced Mobile Networks,” Chinese Journal of Electronics, vol. 23, no. 4, pp. 827-835, 2014,

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An Authenticated Asymmetric Group Key Agreement for Imbalanced Mobile Networks

1.
Institute of Computer and Communication Engineering, Zhengzhou University of Light Industry, Zhengzhou 450002, China;
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School of Computer Science and Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China

Funds: This work is supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.61272511, No.61370063), 863 Program (No.2013AA01A212), PhD Research Fund of the Zhengzhou University of Light Industry, the Research Foundation of Beijing Institute of Technology (No.20120742012) and Shanghai Aerospace Science and Technology Fund (No.SAST201341).

Received Date: 2013-11-01
Rev Recd Date: 2014-03-01
Publish Date: 2014-10-05

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Abstract

A Group key agreement (GKA) protocol enables a group of communicating parties to negotiate a common secret key over an open, untrusted network. The design goal of GKA is to achieve secure group communication, which is an important research issue for mobile communication. The conventional (symmetric) GKA protocol allows a group of members to establish a common secret key for imbalanced mobile networks. However, only the group members can broadcast secret message to the group. To overcome this limitation, this paper proposes an authenticated asymmetric GKA protocol. Instead of a common secret key, each group member negotiates a common group public key and holds a different decryption key. The paper proposed protocol supports the dynamic nodes update of mobile networks, which has forward secrecy and backward secrecy of group key. This protocol is proven secure under the Bilinear Computational Diffie-Hellman problem assumption and the performance analysis shows that the proposed scheme is highly efficient.
- Asymmetric group key agreement,
- Bilinear pairings,
- Dynamic group key update,
- Computational Diffie-Hellman problem

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