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Numerous authentication approaches have been proposed recently for the global mobility network (GLOMONET), which provides mobile users with global roaming services. In these authentication schemes, the home network operators can easily obtain the authentication key and wiretap the confidentiality between the roaming user and the visited network. This investigation provides a solution of authentication techniques for GLOMONET in order to prevent this weakness from happening and presents a secure authentication protocol for roaming services. In addition, a round-efficient version of the same authentication protocol is presented. Comparing with other related approaches, the proposed authentication protocol involves fewer messages and rounds in communication.
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Tian-Fu Lee was born in Tainan, Taiwan, ROC, in 1969. He received his B.S. degree in Applied Mathematics from National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan, in 1992, and his M.S. degree in Computer Science and Information Engineering from National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan, in 1998. He works as a lecturer in Leader University and pursues his Ph.D. degree at Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan. His research interests include cryptography and network security.
Chi-Chao Chang received the BS degree in Microbiology from Soochow University in 1990 and the MS degree in Computer Science from State University of New York at Albany in 1992. He is currently working as an instructor in Chang Jung Christian University and a graduate student in National Cheng Kung University. His research interests are information security, mobile agent systems, anonymous digital signatures and quantum cryptography.
Tzonelih Hwang was born in Tainan, Taiwan, in March 1958. He received his undergraduate degree from National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, in 1980, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Southwestern Louisiana, USA, in 1988. He is presently a professor in Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Cheng Kung University. His research interests include cryptology, network security, and coding theory.
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Lee, TF., Chang, CC. & Hwang, T. Private Authentication Techniques for the Global Mobility Network. Wireless Pers Commun 35, 329–336 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-005-6177-z
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