Cryptanalysis of Hwang-Yang scheme for controlling access in large partially ordered hierarchies

Journal of Systems and Software

Volumn 75, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 189-192

  Wang, Shyh Yih ^a   Laih, Chi Sung ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Access control; Attack; Cryptography; Hierarchy; Key management

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; FUNCTIONS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY; SECURITY OF DATA; THEOREM PROVING;

ACCESS CONTROL; ATTACK; HWANG-YANG SCHEMES; KEY MANAGEMENT;

CRYPTOGRAPHY;

EID: 9544234465     PISSN: 01641212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2004.04.015     Document Type: Article

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