Secure key agreement for group communicationsSecure Key Agreement Protocol for Group Communications • October 31st, 2001
Contract Type FiledOctober 31st, 2001A secure key agreement protocol for group communications is proposed in this paper, which ensures the authenticity of group members and the privacy of group messages, and provides the properties of perfect forward and backward privacy. In a group session, the common key is collaboratively established by all participants, hence the overhead of key agreement is balanced among group members. Copyright 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.