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- Title
Secure mobile communication via identity-based cryptography and server-aided computations.
- Authors
Smith, Matthew; Schridde, Christian; Agel, Björn; Freisleben, Bernd
- Abstract
In this paper, an identity-based key agreement protocol for securing mobile telephony in GSM and UMTS networks is presented. The approach allows two mobile phones to perform a session key agreement over an unsecured channel and between different providers using telephone numbers as public keys. Using the created session key, a symmetric encryption of all call data can be performed. Solutions to the problems of multi-domain key generation, key distribution, multi-domain public parameter distribution and inter-domain key agreement are presented. Furthermore, the proposed approach can be speeded up using server-aided cryptography, by outsourcing computationally expensive cryptographic operations to a high-performance backend computing server. The feasibility of the approach is illustrated by presenting experimental results based on a Symbian implementation running on N95-1 and N82-1 Nokia smartphones.
- Subjects
MOBILE communication systems; CRYPTOGRAPHY; CELL phone systems; GSM communications; UNIVERSAL Mobile Telecommunications System; PUBLIC key cryptography; NOKIA smartphones
- Publication
Journal of Supercomputing, 2011, Vol 55, Issue 2, p284
- ISSN
0920-8542
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11227-010-0455-6