Cryptanalysis of a New Efficient Authenticated Multiple-Key Exchange Protocol from Bilinear Pairings

Multiple-key exchange (MKE) protocols allow two parties to generate two or more shared session keys over insecure networks. In recent years, many MKE protocols have been proposed. However, most of them still have some security flaws. In this letter, we will analyze a new MKE protocol proposed by Farash et al. in 2012, and present two attacks against Farash et al.’s protocol.