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Research on Self-Adaptive Group Key Management in Deep Space Networks

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Deep space network is a must-have technology to improve communication, navigation, and propulsion in future space missions, a very long physical distance among space entities is difficult to overcome efficiently as a space mission could cover a huge space, some distinguished negative features including long time delay and non-reliable end-to-end link deteriorate channel state seriously, thence the operations of rekey could not be implemented on time due to poor channel state which incurs frequently failure and provides more opportunities for adversary in assaulting group key management consequently. To solve the question, a self-adaption group key management scheme is put forward for long time delay and non-reliable end-to-end link network, multi-decryption keys protocol is designed as a container for involving shared decryption keys, every shared decryption key is divided into a few key fragments with threshold cryptograph whose scale is different to adjust the environment requirement, so different numbers of key fragments are applied to the decryption process according to the channel state, the public key material can be revised by a legitimated entity for rekeying without 1-affect-n problem. Any legitimated entities have capability of cooperating to implement different decryption process with different threshold cryptograph mechanisms, thus a few entities cooperate to withdraw a shared key without the leaving entity’s participation in rekeying, so the reliable end-to-end channel for the leaving entity is not necessary. In security aspect, the decryption keys meet key independence, the backward security and forward security are guaranteed in rekeying, and the probability of selected cipher text attack is negligible for an adversary under hardness assumption. Therefore the suggested scheme provides a less message cost rekeying method, it reduces time delay, and the failure of rekeying is tolerated in order to adapt to the non-reliable end-to-end link. Therefore the suggested scheme is suitable to long time delay and non-reliable end-to-end link deep space networks.

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This research was funded by the National Science Foundation Project of P. R. China, Grant Number (No. 61402001). Anhui Provincial High School Nature Fund, Grant Number (No. KJ2013B001). The High School Nature Fund of Anhui Province under Grant No. KJ2020A0013KJ2019A0657, KJ2018A0441. Anhui Finance and Economics University Key Project Fund, Grant Number (No. ACKY1517ZDB).

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    Zhou Jian, Sun Liyan, Duan Kaiyu & Wu Yue

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Conceptualization, ZJ and SL; methodology, ZJ; software, ZJ; validation, ZJ and SL; formal analysis, ZJ; investigation, ZJ and DK; resources, ZJ and WY; data curation, ZJ and WY; writing—original draft preparation, ZJ; writing—review and editing, ZJ and SL; visualization, ZJ and SL; supervision, ZJ; project administration, ZJ; funding acquisition, ZJ.

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Jian, Z., Liyan, S., Kaiyu, D. et al. Research on Self-Adaptive Group Key Management in Deep Space Networks. Wireless Pers Commun 114, 3435–3456 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-020-07540-7

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