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Issues in Multicast Security

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Security Protocols (Security Protocols 1999)

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Multicast communications introduce significant novelties both at the Network and Transport layers. The relevant applications, on the other hand, have special requirements, determined by the real-time and multimedia nature of the data and by the large number of receivers. This paper first discusses the basics of multicast routing and transport, and the concept of a multicast “session”. Then, it analyses the security services that are needed and the difficulties that arise in this context. The techniques that have been proposed for solving different multicast security problems are briefly surveyed.

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  1. Computer Laboratory, Cambridge University, England

    Bruno Crispo

  2. Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Torino, Italy

    Francesco Bergadano, Davide Cavagnino & Bruno Crispo

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  1. Computer Science Department, University of Hertfordshire,  

    Bruce Christianson

  2. Computer Systems Group, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Bruno Crispo

  3. Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA

    James A. Malcolm

  4. Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK

    Michael Roe

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Bergadano, F., Cavagnino, D., Crispo, B. (2000). Issues in Multicast Security. In: Christianson, B., Crispo, B., Malcolm, J.A., Roe, M. (eds) Security Protocols. Security Protocols 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1796. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/10720107_18

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