Title :
Secure Many-to-Some Communications
Author :
Halford, Thomas R.
Author_Institution :
TrellisWare Technol., Inc., San Diego, CA, USA
Abstract :
A number of emerging military applications require that data be sent securely from a large group of source nodes ("many") to a smaller, possibly overlapping, set of destination nodes ("some"). In particular, the source nodes that are not also authorized data destinations in a secure many-to-some session must not be able to decrypt data from other sources. In this paper, we demonstrate that secure many-to-some communications can be achieved via group key agreement and public key cryptography. A number of applications for this novel communications modality are described including position location information (PLI) distribution in unclassified tactical radio networks.
Keywords :
military communication; public key cryptography; telecommunication security; PLI distribution; authorized data destinations; communications modality; destination nodes; group key agreement; military communications; position location information; public key cryptography; secure many-to-some communications; source nodes; tactical radio networks; Encryption; Monitoring; Protocols; Public key cryptography;
Conference_Titel :
Military Communications Conference, MILCOM 2013 - 2013 IEEE
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
DOI :
10.1109/MILCOM.2013.325