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Lightweight anonymous authentication and key agreement protocols for mobile edge computing

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Mobile Edge Computing (MEC), which is a product of 5G technology development, is actually a kind of edge computing form. It takes the base station as the edge server and sinks the cloud computing services to the network edge. To better protect the users and the base stations, a lightweight authentication and key agreement scheme, which is applicable to the MEC field, is proposed in this paper. It achieves secure and efficient key agreement under the premise that the users and the edge servers are completely anonymous and untraceable. For this scheme, instead of the complicated elliptic curve computation and the bilinear pairing computation, it flexibly adopts a number of temporarily generated symmetric keys to realize the identity authentication of the three parties while guaranteeing both the security and efficiency. Compared with other schemes, it is featured in low performance requirements and can better adapt to MEC environment.

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Yukun, Z., Wenxue, W. Lightweight anonymous authentication and key agreement protocols for mobile edge computing. Peer-to-Peer Netw. Appl. 15, 1994–2006 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12083-022-01333-4

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