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An enhanced mutual authentication and key agreement scheme for mobile user roaming service in global mobility networks

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Roaming service is required in the ubiquitous access used in the global mobility networks (GLOMONETs) and the security is one of the most important issues. Many researchers focus their interests on authentication schemes for GLOMONETs. In 2015, Gope and Hwang, Zhang et al. and Farash et al. proposed their key agreement authentication schemes for GLOMONETs, respectively. However, we find weaknesses in them. Gope and Hwang’s scheme is under the off-line guessing attack and the de-synchronization attack. Moreover, it does not keep strong forward security and the session key is known by the home agent. Zhang et al.’s scheme has several weaknesses including vulnerability to the off-line guessing attack, destitution of password change phase, and the leakage of updated session key. Farash et al.’s scheme lacks user anonymity and strong forward secrecy and is vulnerable to the off-line password guessing attack. The session key is known to the home agent, too. Furthermore, neither Gope and Hwang’s scheme nor Farash et al.’s scheme has the session key update phase. To eliminate the problems, we present an improved authentication and key agreement scheme for GLOMONETs. According to the formal proof and the informal analysis, our scheme is well-performed and applicable.

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Acknowledgments

This research is supported by University Distinguished Young Research Talent Training Program of Fujian Province(Year 2016), Fujian Education and Scientific Research Program for Young and Middle-aged Teachers under Grant No. JA14369, the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 61300220, and the Scientific Research Fund of Hunan Provincial Education Department under Grant no.16B089, and it is supported by PAPD and CICAEET. The authors also extend their appreciations to the Deanship of Scientific Research at King Saud University for its funding this Prolific Research Group (PRG-1436-16).

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Xiamen Institute of Technology, Xiamen, 361021, China

    Fan Wu

  2. School of Information Science and Technology, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005, China

    Lili Xu

  3. Department of Mathematics, Chaudhary Charan Singh University, Meerut, 250005, India

    Saru Kumari

  4. School of Computer Science and Engineering, Hunan University of Science and Technology, Xiangtan, 411201, China

    Xiong Li

  5. Center of Excellence in Information Assurance (COEIA), King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

    Muhammad Khurram Khan

  6. Center for Security, Theory and Algorithmic Research, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, 500 032, India

    Ashok Kumar Das

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Wu, F., Xu, L., Kumari, S. et al. An enhanced mutual authentication and key agreement scheme for mobile user roaming service in global mobility networks. Ann. Telecommun. 72, 131–144 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12243-016-0547-2

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