Comment on “Reparable key distribution protocols for Internetenvironments” [and reply] |
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Authors: | XiaoDong Lin YuSen Xing Yi Xian Yang Hwang T. |
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Affiliation: | Dept. of Inf. Eng., Beijing Univ. of Posts & Telecommun.; |
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Abstract: | For original paper see Hwang and Ku (IEEE Trans. Commun., vol.43, p.1947-9, 1995 May). The present authors find that the key distribution protocol KDP2 proposed in the original paper is, in fact, not reparable, as was claimed by the original authors. A reparable revised version of this KPD2 is then introduced. In a reply Hwang presents an example to show that the Lin et al. revised reparable KDP2 did not solve the problem which they proposed |
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