Identity Based Group Key Agreement in Multiple PKG Environment

• Published in: Wuhan University journal of natural sciences Vol. 11; no. 6; pp. 1605 - 1608
• Main Authors: Liming, Wang, Chuankun, Wu
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, China 01.11.2006; Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China%Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, China
• Subjects: PKG; 双线性配对; 多点传送; 密钥协议; 组密钥; multicast; bilinear pairing; group key agreement
• ISSN: 1007-1202; 1993-4998
• DOI: 10.1007/BF02831831

Secure and reliable group communication is an increasingly active research area by growing popularity in group-oriented and collaborative applications. In this paper, we propose the first identity-based authenticated group key agreement in multiple private key generators （PKG） environment. It is inspired on a new two-party identity-based key agreement protocol first proposed by Hoonjung Lee et al. In our scheme, although each member comes from different domain and belongs to different PKGs which do not share the common system parameters, they can agree on a shared secret group key. We show that our scheme satisfies every security requirements of the group key agreement protocols.