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The main goal of this paper is to analyze the security of a multiple-key agreement protocol and to show that this protocol is vulnerable to forgery attack. In order to address the security weakness, a new efficient multiple-key agreement protocol is proposed. The proposed protocol is based on bilinear pairings and utilizes a novel signature scheme without one-way hash functions. In contrast to related...