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http://dx.doi.org/10.5762/KAIS.2010.11.12.5049

An Efficient Authentication Mechanism Strengthen the Privacy Protection in 3G Network  

Jeon, Seo-Kwan (Korea System Assurance Co., Ltd.)
Oh, Soo-Hyun (Department of Information Security, Hoseo University)
Publication Information
Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society / v.11, no.12, 2010 , pp. 5049-5057 More about this Journal
Abstract
As communication technologies are developed and variety of services to mobile devices are provided, mobile users is rapidly increasing every year. However, mobile services running on wireless network environment are exposed to various security threats, such as illegal tampering, eavesdropping, and disguising identity. Accordingly, the secure mobile communications services to 3GPP were established that the standard for 3GPP-AKA specified authentication and key agreement. But in the standard, sequence number synchronization problem using false base station attack and privacy problem were discovered through related researches. In this paper, we propose an efficient authentication mechanism for enhanced privacy protection in the 3G network. We solve the sequence number synchronization existing 3GPP authentication scheme using timestamp and strengthen a privacy problem using secret token. In addition, the proposed scheme can improve the bandwidth consumption between serving network and home network and the problem of authentication data overhead for the serving network because it uses only one authentication vector.
Keywords
3GPP-AKA; Authentication; Privacy; IMSI; Security token;
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