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On the Security of an Efficient Mobile Authentication Scheme for Wireless Networks

Authors:
Jian-zhu Lu
Jipeng Zhou
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URL: http://eprint.iacr.org/2010/126
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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.
BibTeX
@misc{eprint-2010-23027,
  title={On the Security of an Efficient Mobile Authentication Scheme for Wireless Networks},
  booktitle={IACR Eprint archive},
  keywords={applications / mobile authentication; digital signature; replication attack; elliptic-curve cryptosystem.},
  url={http://eprint.iacr.org/2010/126},
  note={An extended abstract of this paper is sumbited to the WiCOM 2010 conference tljz@jnu.edu.cn 14674 received 6 Mar 2010},
  author={Jian-zhu Lu and Jipeng Zhou},
  year=2010
}