CDS. The public bulletin board is generated by a management center of the individual CDS, depending on a tree structure which it determines in its convenience. After the terminal calculates its node keys, it can get a content of the CDS using the calculated node keys." />

A Flexible Tree-Based Key Management Framework

Natsume MATSUZAKI  Toshihisa NAKANO  Tsutomu MATSUMOTO  

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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences   Vol.E86-A   No.1   pp.129-135
Publication Date: 2003/01/01
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Print ISSN: 0916-8508
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Cryptography and Information Security)
Category: Protocols etc.
Keyword: 
key management,  framework,  tree-based,  multiple content distribution systems,  

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Summary: 
This paper proposes a flexible tree-based key management framework for a terminal to connect with multiple content distribution systems (called as CDSs in this paper). In an existing tree-based key management scheme, a terminal keeps previously distributed node keys which are used for decrypting contents from a CDS. According to our proposal, the terminal can calculate its node keys of a selected CDS as the need arises, using the "public bulletin board" of the CDS. The public bulletin board is generated by a management center of the individual CDS, depending on a tree structure which it determines in its convenience. After the terminal calculates its node keys, it can get a content of the CDS using the calculated node keys.