Paper 2007/220

A New Provably Secure Authentication and Key Agreement Mechanism for SIP Using Certificateless Public-key Cryptography

Fengjiao WANG and Yuqing ZHANG

Abstract

The session initiation protocol (SIP) is considered as the dominant signaling protocol for calls over the internet. However, SIP authentication typically uses HTTP digest authentication, which is vulnerable to many forms of known attacks. This paper proposes a new secure authentication and key agreement mechanism based on certificateless public-key cryptography, named as SAKA, between two previously unknown parties, which provides stronger security assurances for SIP authentication and media stream, and is provably secure in the CK security model. Due to using certificateless public key cryptography, SAKA effectively avoids the requirement of a large Public Key Infrastructure and conquers the key escrow problem in previous schemes.

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Category
Cryptographic protocols
Publication info
Published elsewhere. This paper has been submitted to Computer Communications.
Keywords
SIPcertificateless public-key cryptographyauthenticationkey agreement
Contact author(s)
Wangfj @ nipc org cn
History
2007-06-08: received
Short URL
https://ia.cr/2007/220
License
Creative Commons Attribution
CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2007/220,
      author = {Fengjiao WANG and Yuqing ZHANG},
      title = {A New Provably Secure Authentication and Key Agreement Mechanism for {SIP} Using Certificateless Public-key Cryptography},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2007/220},
      year = {2007},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2007/220}
}
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