Title: Group Key Management Protocol (GKMP) Architecture
Author(s): H. Harney, C. Muckenhirn.
Status: EXPERIMENTAL
Date: Jul 1997
Length: 53097
This specification proposes a protocol to create grouped symmetric keys and distribute them amongst communicating peers. This protocol has the following advantages: 1) virtually invisible to operator, 2) no central key distribution site is needed, 3) only group members have the key, 4) sender or receiver oriented operation, 5) can make use of multicast communications protocols.
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