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A Study on Location Untraceability Service and Payment Protocol using Temporary Pseudonym in Mobile Communication Environments  

김순석 (중앙대학교 컴퓨터공학과)
김성권 (중앙대학교 컴퓨터공학과)
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Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory / v.30, no.2, 2003 , pp. 78-92 More about this Journal
Abstract
In related to mobile communication environment, many researchers have studied problems concerning current locations of mobile users and exposure of their movements in the privacy aspect so far [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9]. Among them, Kesdogan and Pfitzmann [3,6] proposed effective solutions using temporary pseudonym identification, called TP(Temporary Pseudonym ) to solve them. After that, Kesdogan et al. proposed an improved method protecting mobile users from some types of attacks of network providers in [8]. However, among their methods, in particular the method, attaching the other new device (so-called Reachability Manager) to system against active attack of network providers, is alterative rather than practical and is not clear. Moreover, it requires the other cost and overhead. Therefore we propose a practical method against active attack of network providers without attaching new device in original environments. The basie idea of proposed method is to protect a fraud act of network provider as a inside user by exchanging a secret information, which only users and network providers know, via network provider between mobile user and the trusted third party (so-called Trust Device). Moreover, we introduce a new payment protocol which applied our method.
Keywords
temporary pseudonym identity; location untraceability service; anonymity;
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