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Many handover authentication protocols for wireless networks have been proposed in recent years. However, most of them are either inefficient or insecure, or lack sufficient concern for user privacy. In this paper, we propose a new design idea for handover authentication protocol by using pseudonym-based cryptography and a variant of the SIGMA (Sign-and-MAC) approach, and present a new handover authentication protocol for wireless networks from elliptic curve cryptography. The proposed protocol satisfies all desirable basic security and privacy requirements, including perfect forward secrecy, user anonymity and un-traceability, conditional privacy preservation and so on. The performance analysis shows that our proposed protocol is more efficient than previous handover authentication protocols in terms of computation and communication.
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This research is jointly funded by Science and Technology Program of Guangzhou (Grant No. 201707010358), and the Opening Project of Shanghai Key Laboratory of Integrated Administration Technologies for Information Security (Grant No. AGK201707).
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Wang, C., Jiang, S., Yuan, Y. (2017). Privacy-Preserving Handover Authentication Protocol from Lightweight Identity-Based Signature for Wireless Networks. In: Wang, G., Atiquzzaman, M., Yan, Z., Choo, KK. (eds) Security, Privacy, and Anonymity in Computation, Communication, and Storage. SpaCCS 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10656. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72389-1_19
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