Paper 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.

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Publication info
Published elsewhere. An extended abstract of this paper is sumbited to the WiCOM 2010 conference
Keywords
mobile authenticationdigital signaturereplication attackelliptic-curve cryptosystem.
Contact author(s)
tljz @ jnu edu cn
History
2010-03-07: received
Short URL
https://ia.cr/2010/126
License
Creative Commons Attribution
CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2010/126,
      author = {Jian-zhu Lu and Jipeng Zhou},
      title = {On the Security of an Efficient Mobile Authentication Scheme for Wireless Networks},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2010/126},
      year = {2010},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2010/126}
}
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