A Secure Multicast Protocol with Copyright Protection
Prof. Klara Nahrstedt
Wednesday, April 26, 4 pm, 114 CSRL
In this talk, we present a simple, efficient, and secure multicast protocol with copyright protection in an open and insecure network environment. There is a wide variety of multimedia applications that can benefit from using the secure multicast protocol such as the commercial pay-per-view video multicast, or highly secure military intelligence video conference. The secure multicast protocol is designed to achieve: (1) It can run in any open network environment. It does not rely on any security mechanism on intermediate network switches or routers. (2) It can be built on top of any existing multicast architecture. (3) Our key distribution protocol is both secure and robust in the presence of long delay or membership message. (4) It can support dynamic group membership, e.g., JOIN/LEAVE/EXPEL operations, in a network bandwidth efficient manner. (5) It can provide copyright protection for the information provider. (6) It can help identify insiders in the multicast session who are leaking information to the outside world in a simple scenario.