A branch oriented key management solution to dynamic access control in a hierarchy

A branch oriented key management scheme whose security is based on solving discrete logarithms is proposed. The key management problems which exist in the multilevel security environment can be overcome. The authors scheme is elegant, simple, general and suitable for the dynamic access control in a hierarchy.<<ETX>>

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