TW-KEAP: an efficient four-party key exchange protocol for end-to-end communications

  • Authors:
  • Wei-Kuo Chiang;Jian-Hao Chen

  • Affiliations:
  • National Chung Cheng University, Chiayi 621, Taiwan Roc;National Chung Cheng University, Chiayi 621, Taiwan Roc

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Security of information and networks
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

The key exchange protocol is the most important cryptography mechanism to protect end-to-end communications by the secret session key encryption. This paper focuses on the four-party key exchange protocol in a environment in which two clients (or UEs) are registered under two distinct servers. We propose a Three-Way Key Exchange and Agreement Protocol, denoted by TW-KEAP. It makes two communication parties have a secret session key to protect their subsequent communications on an efficient way, and intends the servers to involve with the key exchange procedure to derive the session key for the lawful interception support. Security analyses show that it provides mutual authentication, replay attack protection and perfect forward secrecy. Furthermore, the TW-KEAP has not only the shortest total service time based on the experimental results but also the shortest queuing delay from the queuing model analyses, as compared with current alternatives.