A Survey on Group Key Management Schemes

Abstract Cryptographic key management needs utmost security in generating, exchanging, using, rekeying, storing of keys, being used for communication purposes. Successful key management is critical to the security of a cryptosystem. This paper presents a detailed survey on group key management and its challenges in network independent and network dependent approaches. The paper also focuses on the advantages, disadvantages and security vulnerabilities of these protocols.

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