The Design of a Group Key Agreement API

As collaborative applications become more and more popular the need for appropriate security mechanisms becomes apparent.This paper describes a protocol suite and API geared for securing collaborative applications. The API is based on the extensions of Diffie-Hellman key agreement developed in the CLIQUES project. Its core services provide authenticated group key agreement in relatively small and dynamic peer groups.

By: G. Ateniese, D. Hasse, Y. Kim and G. Tsudik

Published in: RZ3170 in 1999

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