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Double Delegation-Based Authentication and Key Agreement Protocol for PCSs

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Many protocols have been proposed for solving the user authentication in portable communication system. One of the schemes is based on the delegation concept. Home Location Register (HLR) delegates Mobile Station (MS) to be authenticated by Visitor Location Register (VLR). The main drawback of the scheme is that the HLR is required during the online authentication phase between VLR and MS. In this paper, a double delegation-based authentication and key agreement protocol is proposed. The main advantage of our protocol is that this scheme requires only MS and VLR online. This protocol will thoroughly utilize the proxy signature features to facilitate the operation of this protocol while only requires two members (MS, VLR) to be online at the same time.

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This study was supported by the National Science Council of Taiwan under grant NSC101-2221-E-179-001. The authors gratefully acknowledge the anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments.

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  1. Graduate Institute of International Sport Affairs, National Taiwan Sport University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC

    Hsia-Hung Ou

  2. Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Asia University, 500, Lioufeng Rd., Wufeng, Taichung, 41354, Taiwan

    Min-Shiang Hwang

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Ou, HH., Hwang, MS. Double Delegation-Based Authentication and Key Agreement Protocol for PCSs. Wireless Pers Commun 72, 437–446 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-013-1022-2

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