IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems

IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems 2007 E90-D(3):688-691; doi:10.1093/ietisy/e90-d.3.688

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Copyright © 2007 The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers

Regular Section -- Letters -- Application Information Security

Web Metering Scheme Based on the Bilinear Pairings

Narn-Yih LEE¹ and Ming-Feng LEE¹

¹ The authors are with the Information Management Department, Southern Taiwan University of Technology, Tainan County, Taiwan 710, ROC. E-mail: nylee{at}mail.stut.edu.tw

Web metering is an effective means of measuring the number of visits from clients to Web servers during a specific time frame. Naor and Pinkas, in 1998, first introduced metering schemes to evaluate the popularity of Web servers. Ogata and Kurosawa proposed two schemes that improve on the Naor-Pinkas metering schemes. This study presents a Web metering scheme which is based on the bilinear pairings and built on the GDH group. The proposed scheme can resist fraud attempts by malicious Web servers and disruptive attacks by malicious clients.

Key Words: cryptography, metering scheme, secret sharing, bilinear pairings, network security

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Manuscript received August 21, 2006. Manuscript revised November 9, 2006.

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