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Title: Authenticated group Diffie-Hellman key exchange: theory and practice

Thesis/Dissertation ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/805133· OSTI ID:805133
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  1. Catholic Univ. of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium)

Authenticated two-party Diffie-Hellman key exchange allows two principals A and B, communicating over a public network, and each holding a pair of matching public/private keys to agree on a session key. Protocols designed to deal with this problem ensure A (B resp.)that no other principals aside from B (A resp.) can learn any information about this value. These protocols additionally often ensure A and B that their respective partner has actually computed the shared secret value. A natural extension to the above cryptographic protocol problem is to consider a pool of principals agreeing on a session key. Over the years several papers have extended the two-party Diffie-Hellman key exchange to the multi-party setting but no formal treatments were carried out till recently. In light of recent developments in the formalization of the authenticated two-party Diffie-Hellman key exchange we have in this thesis laid out the authenticated group Diffie-Hellman key exchange on firmer foundations.

Research Organization:
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR)
DOE Contract Number:
AC03-76SF00098
OSTI ID:
805133
Report Number(s):
LBNL-51150; R&D Project: K52007; B& R KJ0102000; TRN: US200305%%65
Resource Relation:
Other Information: TH: Thesis (Ph.D.); Submitted to Universite Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve (BE); PBD: 3 Oct 2002
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English