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Anonymous And Authenticated Key Exchange For Roaming Networks, Guomin Yang, Duncan S. Wong, Xiaotie Deng

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

User privacy is a notable security issue in wireless communications. It concerns about user identities from being exposed and user movements and whereabouts from being tracked. The concern of user privacy is particularly signified in systems which support roaming when users are able to hop across networks administered by different operators. In this paper, we propose a novel construction approach of anonymous and authenticated key exchange protocols for a roaming user and a visiting server to establish a random session key in such a way that the visiting server authenticates the user's home server without knowing exactly who the user …