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Multiparty authentication services and key agreement protocols with semi-trusted third party

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This paper introduces a new family of group key establishment protocols suitable for small or medium-sized groups. Five protocols are presented, using a semi-trusted server, with varying security service. The first one is a non-authenticated key agreement protocol suitable for applications with low security requirements. The second protocol adds an authenticated key agreement to provide collaborative authentication. The third and the fourth protocols provide key establishment with integrity and confirmation services, and the fifth protocol is the member adding protocol. A major advantage of the protocols is that they reduce the numbers of rounds fromn to 5.

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    Zheng Dong, Chen Kefei & You Jinyuan

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos. 50173032 and 69973031.

ZHENG Dong received the B.S. degree in mathematics from Shanxi Normal University in 1985, the M.S. degree in mathematics from Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an, in 1988, and the Ph.D. degree from Xidian University, Xi’an, 1999. From 1988 to 1996 he served as a lecturer in the Department of Mathematics, Qinghai Teacher’s College. From September 1996 till September 1999, he worked toward Ph.D. degree in School of Communication Engineering, Xidian University with Prof. Yumin Wang as his supervisor and during 1999–2001 he was a post doctoral researcher in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of Shanghai Jiaotong University. Since September 2002, he works as an associate professor in Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiaotong University.

CHEN Kefei received the B.S. and the M.S. degrees in applied mathematics from Xidian University (the former Northwest Telecommunications Engineering Institute), Xi’an, in 1982 and 1985, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from Justus-Liebig University, Germany, in 1994. He joined Shanghai Jiaotong niversity as an associate professor in 1996, and promoted to his present position as a professor in 1998. He was a vice chairman of Department of Computer Science and Engineering of Shanghai Jiaotong University in 1999, and is currently vice dean of School of Information Security Engineering, director of Cryptography and Information Security Lab. Dr. Chen has been concentrated his work on cryptography and information security, especially in public key cryptography, authentication, digital signature, block cipher, digital watermarking, networks security, electronic commerce, and coding theory etc. He is the author of more than 60 research papers, and he received a National Natural Science Award of China in 1990, and Science and Technology Progress Awards by the Chinese State Commission of Education, in 1989 and 1993, respectively.

YOU Jinyuan is a professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiaotong University, director of Shanghai Distributed Computing Technology Center. He graduated from the Department of Automatic Control, Beijing Science and Technology University in 1963. His research area covers operating system design and implementation, distributed computing and mobile computation, software engineering, and middleware technology. He has published many books and more than 60 academic papers.

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Zheng, D., Chen, K. & You, J. Multiparty authentication services and key agreement protocols with semi-trusted third party. J. Compt. Sci. & Technol. 17, 749–756 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02960765

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