Zou / Ramamurthy / Magliveras Secure Group Communications Over Data Networks

1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-387-22971-3
Verlag: Springer US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 172 Seiten

The ubiquitous nature of the Internet is enabling a new generation of - pUcations to support collaborative work among geographically distant users. Security in such an environment is of utmost importance to safeguard the pri­ vacy of the communication and to ensure the integrity of the applications. 'Secure group communications' (SGC) refers to a scenario in which a group of participants can receive and send messages to group members, in a way that outsiders are unable to glean any information even when they are able to intercept the messages. SGC is becoming extremely important for researchers and practitioners because many applications that require SGC are now widely used, such as teleconferencing, tele-medicine, real-time information services, distributed interactive simulations, collaborative work, grid computing, and the deployment of VPN (Virtual Private Networks). Even though considerable research accomplishments have been achieved in SGC, few books exist on this very important topic. The purpose of this book is to provide a comprehensive survey of principles and state-of-the-art techniques for secure group communications over data net­ works. The book is targeted towards practitioners, researchers and students in the fields of networking, security, and software applications development. The book consists of 7 chapters, which are listed and described as follows.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zou, Xukai

Ramamurthy, Byrav

Magliveras, Spyros S.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Contents;6
2;List of Figures;10
3;List of Tables;13
4;Preface;14
5;Acknowledgments;16
6;Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION;17
6.1;1.1 Overview of Secure Group Communications;17
6.2;1.2 Preliminaries;19
6.3;1.3 Enabling Technologies;24
6.4;1.4 Group Dynamics and Security;29
6.5;1.5 Outline;31
7;Chapter 2 TYPICAL GROUP KEY MANAGEMENT SCHEMES;32
7.1;2.1 Classification of Typical Group Key Management Schemes;33
7.2;2.2 Public- Key based Secure Group Communication Schemes;35
7.3;2.3 Secret- Key based Secure Group Communication Schemes;38
7.4;2.4 Group Key Management based on Hierarchical Clusters;43
7.5;2.5 N- party Diffie- Hellman Key Exchange Suite;52
8;Chapter 3 TREE BASED KEY MANAGEMENT SCHEMES;63
8.1;3.1 Centralized Key Distribution based on Tree Structures ;64
8.2;3.2 Distributed Key Agreement based on Tree Structures;90
9;Chapter 4 DYNAMIC CONFERENCING SCHEMES;104
9.1;4.1 Dynamic Conferencing and a Naive Solution;105
9.2;4.2 Public- Key based Dynamic Conferencing Scheme ( PKDC);105
9.3;4.3 Chinese Remainder Theorem based ( Secure Lock) Dynamic Conferencing Scheme;106
9.4;4.4 Symmetric Polynomial based Dynamic Conferencing Scheme;107
9.5;4.5 Tree based Dynamic Conferencing Scheme;109
9.6;4.6 BF- TGDH based Distributed Dynamic Conferencing ( BF- TGDH DC);114
9.7;4.7 Discussion and Comparisons;114
10;Chapter 5 SECURE GROUP COMMUNICATIONS WITH HIERARCHICAL ACCESS CONTROL;117
10.1;5.1 Classification;117
10.2;5.2 Unconditionally Secure Keying Schemes for Hierarchical Access Control;118
10.3;5.3 One- way Function based Schemes for Hierarchical Access Control;120
10.4;5.4 Index based Scheme for SGC with HAC;126
10.5;5.5 Chinese Remainder Theorem Based Scheme for SGC with HAC;134
11;Chapter 6 SGC CHALLENGES AND SGC FOR WIRELESS NETWORKS;139
11.1;6.1 Factors Enabling SGC Functionality;139
11.2;6.2 SGC in Wireless Environments;142
12;Chapter 7 CONCLUDING REMARKS;161
12.1;7.1 Summary of Book Contents;161
12.2;7.2 Exemplary Applications;162
12.3;7.3 Conclusion;163
13;References;165
14;About the Authors;173
15;Index;176