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Securing polynomial based group key management scheme against strong active adversary model

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The literature on group key management focuses solely on the security of schemes under passive adversary model. But they lack security against a more realistic adversary known as strong active outsider adversary. We analyzed an existing polynomial-based key management scheme against strong active adversary and found that the scheme is insecure. In addition to this, we proposed a polynomial-based scheme using a one way function. We show that the proposed scheme is secure against the strong active adversarial model. The proposed scheme is also efficient in comparison to existing schemes.

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Sharma, P., Purushothama, B.R. Securing polynomial based group key management scheme against strong active adversary model. Int. j. inf. tecnol. 14, 2329–2334 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41870-022-00990-1

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