A novel key management scheme for dynamic access control in a user hierarchy

Applied Mathematics and Computation

Volumn 162, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 339-351

  Chen, Tzer Shyong ^a   Huang, Jen Yan ^a  

^a TUNGHAI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Access control; Cryptographic key assignment; One way hash function; User hierarchy

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; DATA HANDLING; FUNCTION EVALUATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; SECURITY OF DATA; SET THEORY;

CRYTOGRAPHIC KEY ASSIGNMENT; DYNAMIC ACCESS CONTROL; ONE-WAY HASH FUNCTIONS; USER HIERARCHY;

CRYPTOGRAPHY;

EID: 10444280844     PISSN: 00963003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amc.2003.12.113     Document Type: Article

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