Wireless Broadcast Encryption Based on Smart Cards

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Yi, Xun and Batten, Lynn (2008) Wireless Broadcast Encryption Based on Smart Cards. Wireless Networks, 16 (1). pp. 153-165. ISSN 1022-0038

Abstract

Wireless broadcasting is an efficient way to broadcast data to a large number of users. Some commercial applications of wireless broadcasting, such as satellite pay-TV, desire that only those users who have paid for the service can retrieve broadcast data. This is often achieved by broadcast encryption, which allows a station securely to broadcast data to a dynamically changing set of privileged users through open air. Most existing broadcast encryption schemes can only revoke a pre-specified number of users before system re-setup or require high computation, communication and storage overheads in receivers. In this paper, we propose a new broadcast encryption scheme based on smart cards. In our scheme, smart cards are used to prevent users from leaking secret keys. Additionally, once an illegally cloned smart card is captured, our scheme also allows tracing of the compromised smart card by which illegal smart cards are cloned, and can then revoke all cloned smart cards. The new features of our scheme include minimal computation needs of only a few modular multiplications in the smart card, and the capability to revoke up to any number of users in one revocation. Furthermore, our scheme is secure against both passive and active attacks and has better performance than other schemes.

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Online ISSN: 1572-8196

Item type Article
URI https://vuir.vu.edu.au/id/eprint/4068
Official URL http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11276-...
Subjects Historical > Faculty/School/Research Centre/Department > School of Engineering and Science
Historical > FOR Classification > 1005 Communications Technologies
Historical > SEO Classification > 8901 Communication Networks and Services
Keywords ResPubID14781. wireless broadcast encryption, smart cards, revocation scheme, broadcast encryption schemes, traitor tracing, wireless broadcasting, data protection, data encryption, illegal smart cards, smart card fraud, smart card cloning, smart card revocation
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