Secure and Anonymous Multicast Framework

Autor: Nathalie Weiler, Bernhard Plattner
Rok vydání: 2001
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Zdroj: Communications and Multimedia Security Issues of the New Century ISBN: 9781475748116
Communications and Multimedia Security
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-35413-2_4
Popis: The rapid increase in Internet users triggered a number of new Internet services and applications such as online shopping, video conferencing, Internet games or distance education. A larger part of those ones requires multicast support for efficient data distribution. A number of secure group communication protocols have been published recently, but the preservation of privacy of the single group member is still an unsolved problem. This paper presents a novel approach to secure and anonymous group communication. First, we propose a solution for anonymity in a local environment based on state-of-the art approaches such as pseudonym servers and anonymizers combined with encryption techniques on different protocol levels in order to guarantee an anonymous way of communication between end-users. Then, we introduce the secure and anonymous multicast (SAM) framework and we show how it can be used as a configurable, scalable architecture in combination with local anonymity.
Databáze: OpenAIRE