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The rapid increase in Internet users triggered a number of new Internet services and applications such as online shopping, video conferencing, Internet games or distance education. A larger part of those ones requires multicast support for efficient data distribution. A number of secure group communication protocols have been published recently, but the preservation of privacy of the single group member is still an unsolved problem. This paper presents a novel approach to secure and anonymous group communication. First, we propose a solution for anonymity in a local environment based on state-of-the art approaches such as pseudonym servers and anonymizers combined with encryption techniques on different protocol levels in order to guarantee an anonymous way of communication between end-users. Then, we introduce the secure and anonymous multicast (SAM) framework and we show how it can be used as a configurable, scalable architecture in combination with local anonymity.
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Weiler, N., Plattner, B. (2001). Secure and Anonymous Multicast Framework. In: Steinmetz, R., Dittman, J., Steinebach, M. (eds) Communications and Multimedia Security Issues of the New Century. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing, vol 64. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35413-2_4
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