Scalable Distributed Group Key Distribution Scheme for Secure Internet Multicast

The need for high bandwidth, very dynamic secure internet multicast communications is increasingly evident in a wide variety of commercial, government, and internet communities. One of the most recently researches is mainly about the group key distribution schemes[1,3,4,5]. In this paper, we survey related group key distribution schemes and propose a new scalable distributed group key distribution scheme which is one of the most important parts in internet multicast environment. Then, we add this scheme to the existing multicast applications and analysis the test results. The proposed SDGD minimizes the times required to distribute and redistribute keys for joining and leaving the multicast group.