An active attack on a distributed Group Key Exchange system

Mohamed Baouch; Juan Antonio López-Ramos; Blas Torrecillas; Reto Schnyder

doi:10.3934/amc.2017052

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2017, Volume 11, Issue 4: 715-717. Doi: 10.3934/amc.2017052

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An active attack on a distributed Group Key Exchange system

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Department of Mathematics, University of Almeria, Ctra. Sacramento s/n, 04120 Almeria, Spain
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Institute of Mathematics, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland

Received: February 29, 2016

Published: June 2018

Second and fourth author are partially suppported by Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad grant MTM2014-54439 and Junta de Andalucia (FQM0211). Third author is partially supported by Armasuisse and Swiss National Science Foundation grant number 149716.

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In this work, we introduce an active attack on a Group Key Exchange protocol by Burmester and Desmedt. The attacker obtains a copy of the shared key, which is created in a collaborative manner with the legal users in a communication group.

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Multiparty key exchange,
active attack.

Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 94A60.

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