An integrated solution for secure group communication in wide-area networks

Conference · Sun Apr 01 04:00:00 EDT 2001

OSTI ID:780589

Agarwal, Deborah A. ^[1]; Chevassut, Olivier ^[2]; Thompson, Mary ^[2]; Tsudik, Gene ^[3]

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1. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); LBNL Library
2. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
3. Univ. of California, Irvine, CA (United States)

Many distributed applications require a secure reliable group communication system to provide coordination among the application components. This paper describes a secure group layer (SGL) which bundles a reliable group communication system, a group authorization and access control mechanism, and a group key agreement protocol to provide a comprehensive and practical secure group communication platform. SGL also encapsulates the standard message security services (i.e, confidentiality, authenticity and integrity). A number of challenging issues encountered in the design of SGL are brought to light and experimental results obtained with a prototype implementation are discussed.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Berkeley National Lab., CA (US)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Director, Office of Science. Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research. Mathematical, Information, and Computational Sciences Division (US)
• DOE Contract Number: AC03-76SF00098
• OSTI ID: 780589
• Report Number(s): LBNL--47158
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS
CLIQUES SECURITY GROUP COMMUNICATION GROUP AUTHORIZATION AND ACCESS CONTROL GROUP KEY AGREEMENT
COMMUNICATIONS
COMPUTER NETWORKS
DESIGN
IMPLEMENTATION
SECURITY