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An Improved Two-Party Authentication Key Exchange Protocol for Mobile Environment

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Mobile environment has been used in large area range of network. In order to secure communication, a number of schemes have been proposed. The typical schemes are two-party authentication key exchange (2PAKE) protocols. It is based on elliptic curve cryptosystem. The main weakness of the protocol is that attackers have the ability to impersonate a legal user at any time. In addition, it is vulnerable to the public key problem and unknown key share attack. In this paper, we propose a 2PAKE protocol. Our protocol is indeed safer and meets the needs. Hence, the proposed protocol has a great contribution to the area of mobile environment.

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  1. School of Mathematics and Statistics, Wuhan University, Guangba Rd., Hongshan Dist., Wuhan, China

    Huibo Yang, Jianhua Chen & Yuanyuan Zhang

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Yang, H., Chen, J. & Zhang, Y. An Improved Two-Party Authentication Key Exchange Protocol for Mobile Environment. Wireless Pers Commun 85, 1399–1409 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-015-2847-7

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