CRMar 30, 2016
An active attack on a distributed Group Key Exchange system
arXiv:1603.09090v14 citations
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This work addresses a security vulnerability in distributed key exchange systems, which is incremental as it targets a specific existing protocol.
The authors introduced an active attack on the Burmester-Desmedt Group Key Exchange protocol, where the attacker successfully obtains a copy of the shared key created collaboratively by legal users in a communication group.
In this work, we introduce an active attack on a Group Key Exchange protocol by Burmester and Desmedt. The attacker obtains a copy of the shared key, which is created in a collaborative manner with the legal users in a communication group.