Paper 2002/128

Perfectly Secure Message Transmission Revisited

Yvo Desmedt and Yongge Wang

Abstract

Achieving secure communications in networks has been one of the most important problems in information technology. Dolev, Dwork, Waarts, and Yung have studied secure message transmission in one-way or two-way channels. They only consider the case when all channels are two-way or all channels are one-way. Goldreich, Goldwasser, and Linial, Franklin and Yung, Franklin and Wright, and Wang and Desmedt have studied secure communication and secure computation in multi-recipient (multicast) models. In a ``multicast channel'' (such as Ethernet), one processor can send the same message---simultaneously and privately---to a fixed subset of processors. In this paper, we shall study necessary and sufficient conditions for achieving secure communications against active adversaries in mixed one-way and two-way channels. We also discuss multicast channels and neighbor network channels.

Metadata
Available format(s)
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Category
Cryptographic protocols
Publication info
Published elsewhere. Unknown where it was published
Keywords
network securityprivacyreliabilitynetwork connectivity
Contact author(s)
yonwang @ uncc edu
History
2002-08-26: received
Short URL
https://ia.cr/2002/128
License
Creative Commons Attribution
CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2002/128,
      author = {Yvo Desmedt and Yongge Wang},
      title = {Perfectly Secure Message Transmission Revisited},
      howpublished = {Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2002/128},
      year = {2002},
      note = {\url{https://eprint.iacr.org/2002/128}},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2002/128}
}
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