English

An active attack on a distributed Group Key Exchange system

Cryptography and Security 2016-03-31 v1

Abstract

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.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1603.09090,
  title  = {An active attack on a distributed Group Key Exchange system},
  author = {Mohamed Baouch and Juan Antonio López-Ramos and Reto Schnyder and Blas Torrecillas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.09090},
  year   = {2016}
}
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