A Secure E-Mail Protocol Using ID-based FNS Multicast Mechanism

Hsing-Chung Chen1, Cheng-Ying Yang2, Hui-Kai Su3, Ching-Chuan Wei4 and Chao-Ching Lee1

  1. Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering
    Asia University, Taichung 413, Taiwan
    shin8409@ms6.hinet.net, cdma2000@asia.edu.tw
  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Taipei
    Taipei 100, Taiwan
    cyang@uTaipei.edu.tw
  3. Department of Electrical Engineering
    National Formosa University, Yunlin 632, Taiwan
    hksu@nfu.edu.tw
  4. Department of Information and Communication Engineering
    Chaoyang University of Technology, Taichung 413, Taiwan
    ccwei@cyut.edu.tw

Abstract

Electronic mail (e-mail) has been used to transfer various types of electronic data in Internet. Usually, a user has to send an e-mail to a specific group of users with a secure delivery mechanism. In this paper, a novel and feasible e-mail delivery mechanism using the secure multicast protocol with an ID-based factorial number structure (FNS) is proposed in the multicast system. In the proposed e-mail delivery mechanism, the e-mail is required to be encrypted before sending out in order to safeguard the message via a public channel, such as wire public switching communication links and wireless communication systems. Without loss generality, the public-key system is adopted in the proposed secure multicast system for a convenient and easy key management. The proposed scheme outperforms the existing methods for more easily to construct secure e-mail system. Furthermore, the security of the proposed scheme is analyzed, including replay attack, sender impersonation attack, unknown key-share attack, forgery attack and insider attack. Finally, the computation complexities of the proposed mechanism are discussed. The result shows that the proposed scheme outperforms the CRT-based secure e-mail scheme.

Key words

factorial number structure, e-mail, security, cryptography

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

https://doi.org/10.2298/CSIS130924066C

Publication information

Volume 11, Issue 3 (August 2014)
Special Issue on Mobile Collaboration Technologies and Internet Services
Year of Publication: 2014
ISSN: 2406-1018 (Online)
Publisher: ComSIS Consortium

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Chen, H., Yang, C., Su, H., Wei, C., Lee, C.: A Secure E-Mail Protocol Using ID-based FNS Multicast Mechanism. Computer Science and Information Systems, Vol. 11, No. 3, 1091–1112. (2014), https://doi.org/10.2298/CSIS130924066C