SIKM – a smart cryptographic key management framework

Open Computer Science

Ahmadi Ali¹  Karamizadeh Sasan²  Chaeikar Saman Shojae³  Chaeikar Nakisa Shoja³ 

[1] Department of Artificial Intelligence, Faculty of Computer Engineering, K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran;Department of ICT Security, ICT Research Institute, Tehran, Iran;Department of Information Security, Faculty of Computer Engineering, Iranians University an e-Institute of Higher Education, Tehran, Iran;

关键词: cryptographic key management;    symmetric key;    secure communications;    key exchange;    key refreshment;   

DOI  :  10.1515/comp-2020-0167

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

For a secure data transmission in symmetric cryptography, data are encrypted and decrypted using an identical key. The process of creating, distributing, storing, deploying, and finally revoking the symmetric keys is called key management. Many key management schemes are devised that each one is suitable for a specific range of applications. However, these schemes have some common drawbacks like the hardness of key generation and distribution, key storage, attacks, and traffic load. In this article, a key management framework is proposed, which is attack resistant and transforms the current customary key management workflow to enhance security and reduce weaknesses. The main features of the proposed framework are eliminating key storage, smart attack resistant feature, reducing multiple-times key distribution to just one-time interpreter distribution, and having short key intervals – minutely, hourly, and daily. Moreover, the key revocation process happens automatically and with no revocation call.

【 授权许可】

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