Entity authentication becomes ubiquitously necessary in pervasive computing environments. We provide taxonomy of entity authentication between keys and locks. Based on the discussion, we propose a novel authentication approach for pervasive computing environments. A person uses a single device, the Master Key, which aggregates all his digital keys for entity authentication. The Master Key initi...

Biometric authentication technologies, such as fingerprint, face, iris, and vein, have been widespread in many applications from individual portable devices to national ID management systems. Furthermore, relatively newer biometric authentication modalities including eye movement, lip-motion, etc., have been also researched and developed in order to improve an authentication accuracy and an usa...

Entity authentication provides confidence in the claimed identity of a peer entity, but the manner in which this goal is achieved results in different types of authentication. An important factor in this regard is the order between authentication and the execution of the associated session. In this paper, we consider the case of post-session authentication, where parties authenticate each other...

This paper describes a solution for nodes and message authentication problems in wireless sensor networks, this solution allows effectively avoiding node-impersonation and messaging falsification among the WSN nodes. The resulting protocol address authentication at two level using identity based cryptography and message authentication codes with SHA-1, for node and message authentication respec...

Even though CDMA2000 wireless networks are being widely deployed as a cellular digital standard around the world, it has some hidden vulnerabilities concerned with security issues. The existing CDMA systems use authentication mechanism by CAVE (Cellular Authentication and Voice Encryption) algorithm. This authentication method has several disadvantages. Only one way authentication is provided, ...

In order to solve network security problem, we need identity authentication protocol to ensure legal user’s authority. Multi-factor identity authentication protocols have more merits than the common identity authentication protocol. This paper analyzes the shortcomings of existing network identity authentication methods, and proposes a new authentication protocol based on SM2 and fingerprint US...

Many hierarchical mobility schemes have been proposed for the Internet. They all seek to improve the hand-off especially when the mobile terminal is moving relatively far from its point of attachment. Some simulations have been presented for their models, but none has addressed security problems. Moreover, these solutions address only the improvement of mobility without studying the impact of a...

Authentication is a process by which one satisses another about one's claim of identity. Typically an authentication server provides the authentication service via an authentication protocol. The authentication service is a security bottleneck in that its compromise can lead to the compromise of the whole system. The service is also a performance bottleneck because many activities cannot procee...

In order to solve network security problem, we need identity authentication protocol to ensure legal user’s authority. Multi-factor identity authentication protocols have more merits than the common identity authentication protocol. This paper analyzes the shortcomings of existing network identity authentication methods, and proposes a new authentication protocol based on SM2 and fingerprint US...

In a Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS), a user equipment (UE) can access IP multimedia services through IP Multimedia Subsystems (IMS). In addition to passing IMS authentication, called IMS AKA, this UE also needs to pass General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) authentication, called 3GPP AKA, since the data of the IMS service is transmitted through a GPRS network. Many steps in the...