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A Key Management Scheme without Re-encryption for Home-domain Contents Distribution in Open IPTV Environments

  • Journal of The Korea Society of Computer and Information
  • Abbr : JKSCI
  • 2010, 15(7), pp.57-66
  • Publisher : The Korean Society Of Computer And Information
  • Research Area : Engineering > Computer Science

정서현 1 Hyosun Roh 1 이현우 2 Jeong Hyun Yi 1 Souhwan Jung 1 이현우 3

1숭실대학교
2한국전자통신연구원
3ETRI 융합미디어인프라연구팀

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ABSTRACT

Due to the advancement of IPTV technologies, open IPTV services are a step closer to becoming reality. In such service environment, users are able to enjoy IPTV services using a variety of devices available at their home domain. However, it is impossible to get such flexible services at their convenience unless each of devices is individually connected to Set-Top-Box (STB) because of Conditional Access System (CAS) or service providers otherwise allow STB to freely distribute decoded contents to every user devices attached to STB. In this paper, we propose a key management scheme for securely distributing contents from STB to multiple user devices at home domain. The proposed scheme also makes the service providers be able to control the access rights to each of user devices without installing individual STBs. It is achieved by computationally dividing a private key of RSA signature scheme into three parts and thus makes possible to distribute the contents scrambled through a underlying CAS mechanism without re-encrypting them that the existing scheme should employ. It improves significantly computation and communication complexities, maintaining it as secure as the existing schemes. Additionally, it prevents misbehaving users from illegally distributing the contents from STB to their devices available at home domain.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.