An Efficient Certificate-Free Key Distribution Protocol for Secure Group Communication in Grid Environment
Abstract
Problem statement: In grid environment, group communication is an important mechanism to realize large-scale information resource sharing. However providing security for group communication in grid environment is very difficult because the group is dynamic in nature. Scalable group re-keying is one of the important issues in secure group communication. These group keys should be updated whenever a member joins/leaves the group to maintain the forward and backward secrecy. Approach: In the recent years, cryptography in grid environment plays an important role that allows secure group communication among members in the dynamic group. Results: Our algorithm for key distribution falls into NP-class. Therefore the key distribution is safe. Conclusion: Performance of the proposed algorithm is computationally efficient and cryptographically strong for message generation and key distribution.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3844/jcssp.2011.917.923
Copyright: © 2011 Mandadi Venkatesulu and Kamatchi Kartheeban. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Keywords
- Secure group communication
- secure communication
- proposed approach
- modular polynomial
- registration process
- dynamic group
- hierarchical groups
- access control