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Two closely related insecure noninteractive group key establishment schemes

Cryptography and Security 2021-03-09 v2

Abstract

Serious weaknesses in two very closely related group authentication and group key establishment schemes are described. Simple attacks against the group key establishment part of the schemes are described, which strongly suggest that the schemes should not be used.

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@article{arxiv.2009.09278,
  title  = {Two closely related insecure noninteractive group key establishment schemes},
  author = {Chris J Mitchell},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.09278},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

Paper updated to describe an attack on a closely related scheme

R2 v1 2026-06-23T18:39:49.085Z