Mobile phones as secure gateways for message-based ubiquitous communication

  • Authors:
  • Walter Bamberger;Oliver Welter;Stephan Spitz

  • Affiliations:
  • Technische Universität München, Germany;Technische Universität München, Germany;Giesecke & Devrient GmbH, Germany

  • Venue:
  • WISTP'07 Proceedings of the 1st IFIP TC6 /WG8.8 /WG11.2 international conference on Information security theory and practices: smart cards, mobile and ubiquitous computing systems
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

For ubiquitous communication self-organising adhoc networks become more and more important. We consider mobile phones as an appropriate trusted gateway for external machines with low communication needs. A message-based approach is best in such a scenario with moving mobile phones and machines. We propose a security model for access control to the communication infrastructure that is also message-based. To meet the requirements of ubiquitous communicating machines, all algorithms on the sender's side are based on symmetric cryptography resulting in low computation needs. A sophisticated symmetric key infrastructure for message authentication provides the necessary key management. The trustworthiness of the mobile phone is achieved by using the SIM as a secure storage and computing module. This makes it possible to use the mobile phone not only as a user terminal but also as a trusted infrastructure component of the mobile network.