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A self-healing and mutual-healing key distribution scheme using bilinear pairings for wireless networks

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Tian, Biming
Han, Song
Dillon, Tharam S.
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2008
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Self-healing key distribution mechanism can be used to establish session keys within a large and dynamic groups of users over an unreliable wireless network. Mutual-healing key distribution mechanism deals with some deficiency existed in self-healing key distribution mechanism. It is a complementarity to the self-healing mechanism. In this paper, a self-healing key distribution scheme using bilinear pairings is proposed. As far as we know, it is the first self-healing and mutual-healing key distribution scheme based on bilinear pairings. The contributions of this paper are as follows: firstly, the scheme is collusion-free for any coalition of non-authorized users. Secondly, the private key has nothingto do with the number of revoked users and can be reused as long as it is not disclosed. Thirdly, the storage overhead for each user is a constant. In addition, we present technique details on how to realize mutual-healing.

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Tian, Biming and Han, Song and Dillon, Tharam. 2008. A self-healing and mutual-healing key distribution scheme using bilinear pairings for wireless networks, in Guo, M. and Wang, Z. and Tang, F. and Xu, C-Z. (ed), International Symposium on Trust, Security and Privacy for Pervasive Applications with International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing, Dec 17 2008, pp. 208-215. Shanghai, China: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Computer Society
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Proceedings of the IEEE/IFIP international symposium on trust, security and privacy for pervasive applications (TSP 2008) with IEEE/IFIP international conference on embedded and ubiquitous computing (EUC 2008)
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Curtin Business School
School of Information Systems
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Centre for Extended Enterprises and Business Intelligence
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