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On Device Authentication in Wireless Networks: Present Issues and Future Challenges

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Trust, Privacy and Security in Digital Business (TrustBus 2007)

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Whilst device authentication must be considered as a cardinal security issue, complementary and of equal importance to user authentication, in today’s wireless networks, only a few papers address it patchily. This paper identifies and analyses possible major solutions towards solving the device authentication problem. We discuss key issues and future challenges that characterize each solution examining its pros and cons. We also offer a short qualitative comparative analysis for the device authentication schemes in question, examining its applicability for both infrastructure and ad-hoc deployments.

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  1. Laboratory of Information and Communication Systems Security, Department of Information and Communication Systems Engineering, University of the Aegean, Karlovassi, GR-83200 Samos, Greece

    Georgios Kambourakis & Stefanos Gritzalis

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Kambourakis, G., Gritzalis, S. (2007). On Device Authentication in Wireless Networks: Present Issues and Future Challenges. In: Lambrinoudakis, C., Pernul, G., Tjoa, A.M. (eds) Trust, Privacy and Security in Digital Business. TrustBus 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4657. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74409-2_16

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