Reliable Multicast for Continuous Data Transmission for Nuclear Treaty Verification
Project Summary
LBNL’s work in reliable multicast built on graduate work in developing reliable multicast by Agarwal (Totem), Berket (InterGroup), Keith Jackson, and Artur Muratas. Related to this work included implementation of a secure group protocol, and improving methods for securing group keys.
One of LBNL’s efforts in reliable multicast involved working groups created to set up the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty verification network, an international network connecting 321 monitoring stations around the world. The goal was to monitor in real-time whether there were activities that could be the result of nuclear weapon testing. LBNL’s role in the project examined the feasibility of using multicast in the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) network, monitoring for signs of explosions.
Subseqeuntly, LBNL also used reliable multicast to provide remote experiment access to Advanced Light Source (ALS) Beamline 7.
Later, Chevassut led a team including Agarwal, Essiari, Farret, and Thompson on secure group multicast communication encryption.
The work at LBNL was funded primarily by DOE ASCR.
Principal Investigators and Senior Personnel:
Deb Agarwal
Karlo Berket
Olivier Chevassut
Abdelilah Essiari
Guillaume Farret
Keith R. Jackson
William Johnston
Artur Muratas
Mary R. Thompson
Collaborators:
Giuseppe Ateniese
Emmanuel Bresson
Pierre-Alain Fouque
Pierrick Gaudry
Damian Hasse
Yongdae Kim
Samuel Meder
David Pointcheval
Frank Siebenlist
Gene Tsudik
Selected publications resulting from this project:
Michel Abdalla, Emmanuel Bresson, Olivier Chevassut, Bodo Möller, David Pointcheval, “Strong password-based authentication in TLS using the three-party group Diffie-Hellman protocol,” Int. J. Secur. Networks, 2(3/4):284-296, 2007.
Emmanuel Bresson, Olivier Chevassut, and David Pointcheval, “A security solution for IEEE 802.11’s ad hoc mode: password-authentication and group Diffie-Hellman key exchange,” Int. J. Wirel. Mob. Comput., 2(1), 4-13, 2007.
Emmanuel Bresson, Olivier Chevassut, David Pointcheval, “Provably secure authenticated group Diffie-Hellman key exchange,” ACM Trans. Inf. Syst. Secur., 10(3), 2007.
Michel Abdalla, Emmanuel Bresson, Olivier Chevassut, Bodo Möller, David Pointcheval, “Provably secure password-based authentication in TLS,” Proceedings of AsiaCCS, 2006.
Olivier Chevassut, Pierre-Alain Fouque, Pierrick Gaudry, and David Pointcheval. “The twist-augmented technique for key exchange” Proceedings of the International Workshop on Public Key Cryptography, 2006.
Michel Abdalla, Emmanuel Bresson, Olivier Chevassut, David Pointcheval, “Password-Based Group Key Exchange in a Constant Number of Rounds,” Public Key Cryptography, 2006.
Michel Abdalla, Olivier Chevassut, Pierre-Alain Fouque, David Pointcheval, A Simple Threshold Authenticated Key Exchange from Short Secrets, Proceedings of ASIACRYPT, 2005.
Michel Abdalla, Olivier Chevassut, David Pointcheval, One-Time Verifier-Based Encrypted Key Exchange. Public Key Cryptography, 2005.
Olivier Chevassut, Pierre-Alain Fouque, Pierrick Gaudry, and David Pointcheval, “Key derivation and randomness extraction” Cryptology ePrint Archive 2005.
Emmanuel Bresson, Olivier Chevassut, Abdelilah Essiari, David Pointcheval, Mutual authentication and group key agreement for low-power mobile devices, Comput. Commun. 27(17):1730-1737, 2004.
Emmanuel Bresson, Olivier Chevassut, David Pointcheval, New Security Results on Encrypted Key Exchange, Public Key Cryptography, 2004.
Liang Fang, Samuel Meder, Olivier Chevassut, and Frank Siebenlist, “Secure password-based authenticated key exchange for web services, Proceedings of the 2004 Workshop on Secure Web Service, 2004.
Emmanuel Bresson, Olivier Chevassut, David Pointcheval, Security proofs for an efficient password-based key exchange, Proceedings of CCS, 2003.
Emmanuel Bresson, Olivier Chevassut, Abdelilah Essiari, David Pointcheval, Mutual Authentication and Group Key Agreement for low-Power Mobile Devices, Proceedings of MWCN, 2003
Karlo Berket, Deborah A Agarwal, and Olivier Chevassut. A practical approach to the InterGroup protocols. Future Generation Computer Systems, 18(5):709–719, 2002.
Emmmanuel Bresson, Olivier Chevassut, and David Pointcheval, “Group Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange Secure Against Dictionary Attacks,” Proceedings of ASIACRYPT, Queenstown, New Zealand, 2002.
Emmanuel Bresson, Olivier Chevassut, and David Pointcheval. “Dynamic group Diffie-Hellman key exchange under standard assumptions,” Proceedings of Eurocrypt, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2002
Olivier Chevassut, “Authenticated group Diffie-Hellman key exchange: theory and practice,” 2002.
Emmanuel Bresson, Olivier Chevassut, and David Pointcheval. “The group Diffie-Hellman problems,” Selected Areas in Cryptography: 9th Annual International Workshop, 2002.
Emmanuel Bresson, Olivier Chevassut, David Pointcheval, Security Proofs for an Efficient Password-Based Key Exchange. IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch. 2002.
Deborah A. Agarwal. Discussion Of Reliable Multicast Deployment Progress For The Continuous Data Protocol. In Proceedings of the 23rd Annual DoD/DOE Seismic Research Review: Worldwide Monitoring of Nuclear Explosions, Jackson Hole, WY, Oct. 2001.
Deborah A Agarwal, Olivier Chevassut, Mary R Thompson, and Gene Tsudik. An integrated solution for secure group communication in wide-area networks. In Proceedings of the Sixth IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications, pages 22–28, 2001.
Emmanuel Bresson, Olivier Chevassut, and David Pointcheval, “Provably Authenticated Group Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange - The Dynamic Case,” Proceedings of ASIACRYPT, 2001.
Emmanuel Bresson, Olivier Chevassut, David Pointcheval, Jean-Jacques Quisquater, Provably authenticated group Diffie-Hellman key exchange, _Proceedings of CCS], 2001.
Deborah Agarwal, Richard Stead, Brian Coan, James E Burns, Nishith Shah, and Nicholas Kyriakopoulos. Initial results of the CD-1 reliable multicast experiment. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 2000.
Giuseppe Ateniese, Olivier Chevassut, Damian Hasse, Yongdae Kim, and Gene Tsudik, The design of a group key agreement API. Proceedings of the DARPA Information Survivability Conference and Exposition (DISCEX), 2000
Deborah A Agarwal. Using multicast in the global communications infrastructure for group communication. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1999.
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