— Both broadcast encryption (BE) protocols and multicast key distribution (MKD) protocols try to solve the same problem of private group communication. For the first time, we dis...
Email protocols were designed to be flexible and forgiving, designed in a day when Internet usage was a cooperative thing. A side effect of that is that they were not designed to ...
In this paper, a practical and secure e-mail system (called “PractiSES”) that performs public key distribution and management in a unique way is proposed. PractiSES is a networ...
A multi-signature scheme enables a group of signers to produce a compact, joint signature on a common document, and has many potential uses. However, existing schemes impose key s...
We study the security of the widely deployed Secure Session Layer/Transport Layer Security (TLS) key agreement protocol. Our analysis identifies, justifies, and exploits the modul...