The first edition of this book was published in 2003. Inevitably, certain parts of the book
became outdated quickly. At the same time new developments have continued apace …

Authenticated key-exchange protocols allow two participants A and B, communicating over a
public network and each holding an authentication means to exchange a shared secret …

Recent technologies have cleared the way for large scale application of electronic
communication. The open and distributed nature of these communications implies that the …

We consider the fundamental problem of authenticated group key exchange among n
parties within a larger and insecure public network. A number of solutions to this problem …

A group key agreement (GKA) protocol allows a set of users to establish a common secret
via open networks. Observing that a major goal of GKAs for most applications is to establish …

This study applied factor analysis and landscape indices of 55 sampling sites in Changhua
county in Taiwan to characterize the factor patterns of eight soil heavy metals (As, Cd, Cr …

In modern collaborative and distributed applications, authenticated group key agreement
(GKA) is one of important issues. Recently identity (ID)-based authenticated GKA has been …

Group key agreement (shorten as GKA) protocol enables a group of users to negotiate a one-
time session key and protect the thereafter group-oriented communication with this session …

We consider the problem of authenticated group key exchange among n parties
communicating over an insecure public network. A number of solutions to this problem have …

We present a Group Key Exchange protocol which extends in a natural way the Diffie–
Hellman protocol. Our protocol is scalable: it has two rounds (for n> 2 parties) and the …