Title: A secure and efficient time-bound hierarchical access control scheme for secure broadcasting

Authors: Vanga Odelu; Ashok Kumar Das; Adrijit Goswami

Addresses: Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur 721 302, India ' Center for Security, Theory and Algorithmic Research, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad 500 032, India ' Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur 721 302, India

Abstract: In a time-bound cryptographic key assignment scheme, distinct temporal keys for distinct time periods are assigned to the channels in order to encrypt and decrypt the channels for secure broadcasting. It has numerous applications including the Pay-TV systems. In this paper, we aim to propose a novel time-bound hierarchical access control scheme for secure broadcasting, in which each user needs to store a distinct and unique user's private key, and hence each user in a channel group can subscribe for an individual channel. Our scheme reduces significantly the implementation cost and also improves the computational performance along with extra features. Through the informal and formal security analysis, it is shown that our scheme is secure against various known attacks including the collusion attack. As a result, our scheme is more secure and efficient as compared to other related schemes in the literature.

Keywords: time-bound access control; hierarchical access control; symmetric key cryptosystems; hash function key management; secure broadcasting; cryptography; Pay TV; security analysis; collusion attacks.

DOI: 10.1504/IJAHUC.2016.078113

International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing, 2016 Vol.22 No.4, pp.236 - 248

Received: 05 Jun 2014
Accepted: 14 Aug 2014

Published online: 03 Aug 2016 *

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