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A secure authentication scheme with anonymity for session initiation protocol using elliptic curve cryptography

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As a signaling protocol for controlling communication on the internet, establishing, maintaining, and terminating the sessions, the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is widely used in the world of multimedia communication. To ensure communication security, many authentication schemes for the SIP have been proposed. However, those schemes cannot ensure user privacy since they cannot provide user anonymity. To overcome weaknesses in those authentication schemes with anonymity for SIP, we propose an authentication scheme with anonymity using elliptic curve cryptograph. By a sophisticated analysis of the security of the proposed protocol, we show that the proposed scheme not only overcomes weaknesses in previous schemes but also is very efficient. Therefore, it is suitable for applications with higher security requirements.

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The authors thank the editors and the anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments. This research was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 51190093, 51309098, 200926).

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  1. North China University of Water Conservancy & Electric Power, Zhengzhou, China

    Zezhong Zhang & Qingqing Qi

  2. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Thapar University, Patiala, India

    Neeraj Kumar

  3. Department of Computer Science and Computer Engineering, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia

    Naveen Chilamkurti

  4. Humanitas College, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea

    Hwa-Young Jeong

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Zhang, Z., Qi, Q., Kumar, N. et al. A secure authentication scheme with anonymity for session initiation protocol using elliptic curve cryptography. Multimed Tools Appl 74, 3477–3488 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-014-1885-6

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