An active attack on a distributed Group Key Exchange system
Mohamed Baouch, Juan Antonio Lopez-Ramos, Blas Torrecillas, Reto Schnyder · Advances in Mathematics of Communications · 2017
In this work, we introduce an active attack on a Group Key Exchange protocol by Burmester and Desmedt. The attacker obtains a copy of the shared key, which is created in a collaborative manner with the legal users in a communication group.