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In the literature, several group key management (GKM) schemes have been proposed and reviewed against passive adversary to analyze the important security requirements of forward and backward secrecy. This article studies a few GKM schemes under more powerful attack defined in IND-SAOA attack game following the random oracle model. The attacker in the game can deliberately compromise or corrupt a legitimate user in the network, which in turn discloses the current keying information associated with that user. In consequence, it is necessary to inspect whether the disclosure of current group key exposes previous group keys, because in that case, backward secrecy is no longer attained. The work shows that the advantage of the attacker in the game is non-negligible for these schemes; on that account, it is concluded that these schemes are insecure and the reason for the same is stated as well. On a concluding note, this article summarizes some observations in the end that occurred during the analysis which are beneficial in construction of a secure GKM scheme.
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This article is part of the topical collection “Cyber Security and Privacy in Communication Networks” guest edited by Rajiv Misra, R K Shyamsunder, Alexiei Dingli, Natalie Denk, Omer Rana, Alexander Pfeiffer, Ashok Patel, and Nishtha Kesswani.
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Sharma, P., Purushothama, B.R. Security Analysis of Group Key Management Schemes in Wireless Sensor Networks Against IND-SAOA Game. SN COMPUT. SCI. 2, 261 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42979-021-00645-1
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