Abstract— We propose a method for wide-area message passing systems to perform collective operations using dynamically created spanning trees. In our proposal, broadcasts and red...
We first study the problem of doing Verifiable Secret Sharing (VSS) information theoretically secure for a general access structure. We do it in the model where private channels b...
Interest Management in large-scale distributed applications aims to reduce the amount of extraneous broadcast communication between nodes in the system with the aim of increasing ...
A group key agreement protocol (GKA) allows a set of players to establish a shared secret key which can be used to secure a subsequent communication. Several efficient constantrou...
Adaptive security is based on the observation that the security requirements of a system or service heavily depend on the environment in which they operate and should therefore be...