EFFECTIVE KEY GENERATION FOR MULTIMEDIA AND WEB APPLICATION

Effective key generation for multimedia and web application

Abstract

         

                   The Effective key generation for multimedia and web application’s is used as the core component of many web and multimedia applications such as pay-TV, teleconferencing, real-time distribution of stock market price and etc.

                   The main challenges for secure multicast are scalability, efficiency and authenticity. In this project, we propose a scalable, efficient, authenticated group key agreement scheme for large and dynamic multicast systems. The proposed key agreement scheme is identity-based which uses the bilinear map over the elliptic curves.

                    Compared with the existing system, the proposed system provides group member authenticity without imposing extra mechanism. Furthermore, we give a scalability solution based on the subgroups, which has advantages over the existing schemes. Security analysis shows that our scheme satisfies both forward secrecy and backward secrecy.

Introduction

                   Many types of group applications, such as pay per view distribution of digital media, teleconferencing, software updates and real-time delivery of stock market information can benefit from IP multicast [13, 14, and 15], which greatly reduced the server overhead and bandwidth usage by enabling source to send a single copy of message to multiple recipients.

                   One of the main challenges for secure multicast is access control for making sure that only legitimate members of multicast group have access to the group communication.

                   In the past two or three decades, cryptography as become the well-established means to solve the security problems in networking. However, there are still a lot of difficulties for directly deploying cryptography algorithms into multicasting environment as what has been done for unicasting environment.

                   The commonly used technique to secure multicast communication is to maintain a group key that is known to all users in the multicast group, but is unknown to any one outside the group [8, 16, 20, 21, 23, 29, 31, 32, 33, and 34]. Efficiently managing the group key is a difficult problem for large dynamic groups.

                    Each time a member is added to or evicted from the communication group, the group key must be refreshed. The members in the group must be able to compute the new group key efficiently, at the same time forward and backward secrecy must be guaranteed. Because the group re-keying is very consumptive and frequently performed due to the nature of multicast communication, the way to update it in a scalable and secure fashion is required.

Dataflow Diagram

Module Description

User Interface

          In this module we design the user interface to send and receive messages.

Key encryption

          The key is generated and encrypted in this module. The encryption is done to increase the security to avoid intruders from hacking the key.

Message encryption

          In addition to key encryption, the message is also encrypted in the group controller. This encryption avoids intruders misusing the message. This module increases the security of the message.

Message decryption

          Encrypted message is decrypted before receiving at the receiver end. This decryption enables the authorized user to receive the original message.

         

Existing System:

         

          In the Existing system we use Iolus approach proposed the notion of hierarchy subgroup for scalable and secure multicast. In this method, a large communication group is divided into smaller subgroups. Each subgroup is treated almost like a separate multicast group and is managed by a trusted group security intermediary (GSI).

          GSI connect between the subgroups and share the subgroup key with each of their subgroup members. GSI s act as message relays and key translators between the subgroups by receiving the multicast messages from one subgroup, decrypting them and then re multicasting those to the next subgroup after encrypting them by the subgroup key of the next subgroup.

         

          The GSI s are also grouped in a top-level group that is managed by a group security controller (GSC), When a group member join or leave only affect subgroup only while the other subgroup will not be affected. It has the drawback of affecting data path. This occurs in the sense that there is a need for translating the data that goes from one subgroup, and thereby one key, to another.

          This becomes even more problematic when it takes into account that the GSI has to manage the subgroup and perform the translation needed. The GSI may thus become the bottleneck.

Disadvantage:

·        It will affect the data path while any user is to join the Subgroup or leaving the Subgroup.

·        Security is less in group security controller (GSC) while communicating between the Subgroups.

Proposed System:

          The advantages over the existing system are, we use an identity tree instead of key tree in our scheme. Each node in the identity tree is associated with an identity. The leaf node’s identity is corresponding to the user’s identity and the intermediate node’s identity is generated by its children’s identity.

          Hence, in an identity tree, an intermediate node represents a set of users in the sub tree rooted at this node.

         

In our scheme, even though a subgroup controller fails, it does not affect its subgroup because every user in the subgroup can act as the subgroup group controller.

           The keys used in each subgroup can be generated by a group of key generation centers (KGCs) in parallel. All the members in the same subgroup can compute the same subgroup key though the keys for them are generated by different KGCs. This is a desirable feature especially for the large-scale network systems, because it minimizes the problem of concentrating the workload on a single entity.

Advantages:

·        We use an identity tree instead of key tree in our scheme to avoid the disturbance in data path.

·        Effective security communication within the subgroups and between the subgroups.

·        The desirable feature especially for the large-scale network systems in this project minimizes the problem of concentrating the workload on a single entity.

System Requirements

Hardware:

PROCESSOR        :    PENTIUM IV 2.6 GHz

RAM                      :    512 MB

MONITOR            :    15”

HARD DISK         :    20 GB

CDDRIVE             :    52X

KEYBOARD         :   STANDARD 102 KEYS

MOUSE                 :    3 BUTTONS

Software:

FRONT END                  :    JAVA, SWING

TOOLS USED                :    JFRAME BUILDER

OPERATING SYSTEM:    WINDOWS XP

Conclusion

                   We have proposed an efficient, authenticated, scalable key agreement for large and dynamic multicast systems, which is based on the bilinear map. Compared with the previously published schemes in literature, we use an identity tree to achieve the authentication of the group member. Further, our scheme solves the scalability problem in multicast communications.

                    Since a large group is divided into many small groups. Each subgroup is treated almost like a separate multicast group with its own subgroup key. All the keys used in each subgroup can be generated by a group of KGCs in parallel. The intuitively surprising aspect of this scheme is that, even the subgroup controller aborts, it does not affect the users in this subgroup.

                   Because every user in the subgroup can act as a subgroup controller. This is a significant feature especially for the mobile and ad hoc networks. From the security analysis we can see that our scheme satisfies both forward and backward secrecy.