Cryptology ePrint Archive: Report 2010/126

On the Security of an Efficient Mobile Authentication Scheme for Wireless Networks

Jian-zhu Lu and Jipeng Zhou

Abstract: Tang and Wu proposed an efficient mobile authentication scheme for wireless networks, and claimed the scheme can effectively defend all known attacks to mobile networks including the denial-of-service attack. This article shows an existential replication attack on the scheme and, as a result, an attacker can obtain the communication key between a mobile user and the accessed VLR. Fortunately, we improve its security in this paper.

Category / Keywords: applications / mobile authentication; digital signature; replication attack; elliptic-curve cryptosystem.

Publication Info: An extended abstract of this paper is sumbited to the WiCOM 2010 conference

Date: received 6 Mar 2010

Contact author: tljz at jnu edu cn

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