Summary: On the Performance of Group Key Agreement Protocols

Yair Amir
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Yongdae Kim
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Cristina Nita-Rotaru
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Gene Tsudik
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Abstract
Group key agreement is a fundamental building block for
secure peer group communication systems. Several group
key agreement protocols were proposed in the last decade,
all of them assuming the existence of an underlying group
communication infrastructure.
This paper presents a performance evaluation of five no-
table key agreement protocols for peer groups, integrated
with a reliable group communication system (Spread).
They are: Centralized Group Key Distribution (CKD),

Source: Amir, Yair - Department of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University

Collections: Computer Technologies and Information Sciences