Paper 2015/697

On the Security of a Self-healing Group Key Distribution Scheme

Yandong Zheng and Hua Guo

Abstract

Recently, in Journal of Security and Communication Networks (5(12):1363-1374, DOI: 10.1002/sec.429), Wang et al. proposed a group key distribution scheme with self-healing property for wireless networks in which resource is constrained. They claimed that their key distribution scheme satisfies forward security, backward security and can resist collusion attack. Unfortunately, we found some security flaws in their scheme. In this paper, we present a method to attack this scheme. The attack illustrates that this scheme does not satisfy forward security, which also directly breaks the collusion resistance capability.

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Category
Cryptographic protocols
Publication info
Preprint. MINOR revision.
Keywords
Cryptanalysisforward securitycollusion resistanceself-healing key distribution.
Contact author(s)
hguo xyz @ 163 com
History
2015-07-13: received
Short URL
https://ia.cr/2015/697
License
Creative Commons Attribution
CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2015/697,
      author = {Yandong Zheng and Hua Guo},
      title = {On the Security of a Self-healing Group Key Distribution Scheme},
      howpublished = {Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2015/697},
      year = {2015},
      note = {\url{https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/697}},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/697}
}
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