A lightweight identity authentication protocol for wireless networks
Mobile and wireless communication networks have created a major breakthrough in new telecom applications and services. Unfortunately, wireless networking is a double edged sword. Ever since it introduced new factors such as mobility, the temptation for unauthorized access and eavesdropping has been a reality because an attacker could easily access the transport medium. For that and in order to defend against targeted attackers, wireless networks need to define robust and layered protection mechanisms. In this paper, we present a TLS-based protocol named Light-Transport Layer Security (TLS), a lightweight identity authentication protocol for access control and key calculation and distribution for both mobile clients (WAP, GPRS) and application servers. The performance and the efficiency of our proposed protocol were performed using two Java Card Smartcards and then analyzed and compared to other solutions. The results demonstrate that our protocol efficiently manages to reduce the computation times and the message load and transport during the authentication phase. (C) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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