Research Article
Towards a Secure Mutual Authentication and Key Exchange Protocol for Mobile Communications
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/wiopt.2008.3402, author={Yi-Jun He and Moon Chuen Lee}, title={Towards a Secure Mutual Authentication and Key Exchange Protocol for Mobile Communications}, proceedings={6th International ICST Symposium on Modeling and Optimization}, publisher={IEEE}, proceedings_a={WIOPT}, year={2008}, month={8}, keywords={MAKEP; Elliptic Curve; forward secrecy; user anonymity}, doi={10.4108/wiopt.2008.3402} }- Yi-Jun He
Moon Chuen Lee
Year: 2008
Towards a Secure Mutual Authentication and Key Exchange Protocol for Mobile Communications
WIOPT
IEEE
DOI: 10.4108/wiopt.2008.3402
Abstract
We analyze several mutual authentication and key exchange protocols (MAKEPs), and present a number of essential properties of the protocols for secure mobile communications. To address the weaknesses of existing protocols, we propose an improved version of MAKEP known as EC-MAKEP. Besides supporting the essential features present in the existing protocols, the proposed protocol also provides the user anonymity and forward secrecy properties that many of the existing protocols do not support. Further, the proposed protocol compares favorably with ES-MAKEP, an improved version of the early MAKEPs, in terms of computation cost and communication bandwidth. In addition, EC-MAKEP supports an implicit authentication of server and a dual authentication of client.