Integration of Admission Control and Group Key Agreement

In this paper we present an authenticated group key agreement scheme with admission control for dynamic peer groups. Admission control is a necessary part of group communication. The scheme uses secret sharing to achieve integration of admission control and key agreement, and addresses the pre-requisite for key management. Identity-based cryptosystems are used for mutual authentication and key agreement, and they avoid bandwidth consuming and expensive computation arising from certificates in PKI .

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