Paper Info
Title
Efficient authentication protocol with anonymity and key protection for mobile Internet users.
Abstract
To preserve user privacy and guarantee data confidentiality on the mobile Internet, it is crucial to secure communication between the mobile devices held by users and a remote server. In real applications, a serious threat against communication security is exposure of secret keys, due to the compromise of the mobile devices storing the key. One method of preserving key exposure is to use protected hardware or smart-cards, but they are costly and impractical. Another method is to utilize secret sharing to share secret key across multiple devices. Nevertheless, secret sharing schemes guarantee security only if the adversary cannot access at least one share in its entirety. In this paper, we present a remote authentication protocol, which resists key exposure. Further, we present a zero-knowledge protocol based on SDH assumption that can achieve anonymity. We formally prove our proposed solution is secure under the decision linear assumption and the qs-mSDH assumption in the random oracle model. Finally, we show our solution can achieve higher efficiency and stronger anonymity comparing with existing schemes, and thus the proposed solution is more suitable for real-world environments.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1016/j.jpdc.2019.11.010
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
Keywords
Field
DocType
Anonymity,Key protection,Zero-knowledge protocols,Mobile Internet
Secret sharing,Computer security,Computer science,Random oracle,Authentication protocol,Mobile device,Decision Linear assumption,Anonymity,Communications security,Secure communication,Distributed computing
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
137
0743-7315
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yan Jiang13610.46
Youwen Zhu211615.58
Jian Wang3197.70
Yong Xiang4113793.92