Secure mobile communication via identity-based cryptography and server-aided computations

  • Authors:
  • Matthew Smith;Christian Schridde;Björn Agel;Bernd Freisleben

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany 35032;Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany 35032;Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany 35032;Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany 35032

  • Venue:
  • The Journal of Supercomputing
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

In this paper, an identity-based key agreement protocol for securing mobile telephony in GSM and UMTS networks is presented. The approach allows two mobile phones to perform a session key agreement over an unsecured channel and between different providers using telephone numbers as public keys. Using the created session key, a symmetric encryption of all call data can be performed. Solutions to the problems of multi-domain key generation, key distribution, multi-domain public parameter distribution and inter-domain key agreement are presented. Furthermore, the proposed approach can be speeded up using server-aided cryptography, by outsourcing computationally expensive cryptographic operations to a high-performance backend computing server. The feasibility of the approach is illustrated by presenting experimental results based on a Symbian implementation running on N95-1 and N82-1 Nokia smartphones.