Design of Secure End-to-End protocols for Mobile Systems

摘要

Use of mobile personal computers in open networked environment is revolutionalising the way we use computers. Mobile networked computing is raising important security and privacy issues. This paper is concerned with the design of authentication protocols for a mobile networked computing environment. We propose secure end-to-end protocols between mobile users using a combination of public key and symmetric key based systems. These protocols enable mutual authentication and establish a shared secret key between mobile users. They also provide a certain degree of anonymity of the communicating users to other system users.