Abstract
Recently the concept of personal PKI was introduced to describe a public key infrastructure specifically designed to support the distribution of public keys in a personal area network. However, traditional public key signature schemes and certificate status management schemes used in the personal PKI concept cause formidable overheads to components in the personal area network since mobile devices constituting the personal area network have limited computational and communication capabilities. In this paper we propose an efficient authentication protocol that eliminates the traditional public key operations on mobile devices without any assistance of a signature server. Moreover, the proposed protocol provides a simplified procedure for certificate status management to alleviate communication and computational costs on mobile devices in the personal area network.
This work was partially supported by grant No. R01-2006-000-10260-0 from the Basic Research Program of the Korea Science & Engineering Foundation, and the MIC(Ministry of Information and Communication), Korea, under the ITRC(Information Technology Research Center) support program supervised by the IITA(Institute of Information Technology Assessment).
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Sur, C., Rhee, K.H. (2006). An Efficient Authentication and Simplified Certificate Status Management for Personal Area Networks. In: Kim, YT., Takano, M. (eds) Management of Convergence Networks and Services. APNOMS 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4238. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11876601_28
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