A security enhanced tag developed by Fudan University is introduced in this paper. This tag is designed to be compatible with EPC Class 1 Generation 2 protocol (EPC C1G2), and can be extended to support mutual authentication and to encrypt communication between reader and tag. A mutual authentication scheme is proposed, and low cost cryptographic algorithm core is implemented in the tag to acco...

In 2013, Sun et al. showed that the related works' authentication schemes proposed by [2-7] are vulnerable to an insider attack and fail to provide mutual authentication. These two attacks can be successfully plotted by an adversary, since the private key of the server can compute all the legal users’ private keys. They then proposed a new remote user authentication and key agreement scheme for...

As has been widely discussed, the GSM mobile telephony system only offers unilateral authentication of the mobile phone to the network; this limitation permits a range of attacks. While adding support for mutual authentication would be highly beneficial, changing the way GSM serving networks operate is not practical. This paper proposes a novel modification to the relationship between a Subscri...

The widespread use of wireless cellular networks has made security an ever increasing concern. GSM is the most popular wireless cellular standard, but security is an issue. The most critical weakness in the GSM protocol is the use of one-way entity authentication, i.e., only the mobile station is authenticated by the network. This creates many security problems including vulnerability against m...

In the research literature, a typical authenticated key agreement protocol is designed to realize mutual authentication and key secrecy. In a network, as a crucial cryptographic primitive, key agreement can establish secure communication channels for communication entities. Meanwhile, the users privacy is particularity important, especially for multi-server authentication environment. Network p...

Cloud computing nowadays has been involved in everyone’s life. This emerging technology allows users to share its resources globally. Cloud computing is aimed at providing IT as a service to the cloud users on-demand basis with greater flexibility, availability, reliability and scalability with utility computing model. Among all researching areas of cloud computing, mutual authentication is one...

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) systems are increasingly being deployed in a variety of applications. In this paper, we propose a light weight mutual authentication protocol which is an improvement over extended LMAP+ protocol. In mutual authentication, the tag and the reader of the RFID systems will authenticate each other before transmitting unique ID of tag. The proposed protocol provi...

This document describes a key management protocol variant for the Multimedia Internet KEYing (MIKEY) protocol that relies on a trusted key management service. In particular, this variant utilizes Identity-Based Authenticated Key Exchange (IBAKE) framework that allows the participating clients to perform mutual authentication and derive a session key in an asymmetric Identity-Based Encryption (I...

The Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) describes a framework that allows the use of multiple authentication mechanisms. This document defines an authentication mechanism for EAP called EAP-EKE, based on the Encrypted Key Exchange (EKE) protocol. This method provides mutual authentication through the use of a short, easy to remember password. Compared with other common authentication metho...

The Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) describes a framework that allows the use of multiple authentication mechanisms. This document defines an authentication mechanism for EAP called EAP-EKE, based on the Encrypted Key Exchange (EKE) protocol. This method provides mutual authentication through the use of a short, easy to remember password. Compared with other common authentication metho...