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An Anonymous Authentication Protocol with Chargeability and Fair Privacy for Mobile Network Environments

Mobile network equipments are widely popularized and advanced mobile communication services are provided increasingly such that ubiquitous computing environments will come true soon. It is a pleasure for mobile users to work or get recreations in the mobile network environments. However, just as the cases in wireline environments, there are a lot of security threats to mobile network systems and their impact on the security is more serious than that in wireline environments owing to the feature of wireless transmissions and the ubiquity property in mobile network systems. The secret personal information, important data, or classified missives which mobile users carry may be stolen by malicious entities. In order to guarantee the quality of the advanced communication services, the security and privacy would be the important issues when mobile users roam to the mobile networks. In this thesis, an anonymous authentication protocol will be proposed to protect both the security of the mobile network system and the privacy of mobile users. Not only does the proposed scheme provide mutual authentication between each user and the system, but also the identity of each user can be kept secret against anyone else including the system. Although the users are anonymously authenticated by the system, it can still make correct bills to charge these anonymous users. Finally, our protocol also achieves the goal of fair privacy which allows the judge to be able to revoke the anonymity and trace the illegal users when they misused the anonymity property such as they committed crimes.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0726106-163105
Date26 July 2006
CreatorsHuang, Shi-Ming
ContributorsCha-Hwa Lin, Chun-I Fan, Chun-Hung Richard Lin, D. J. Guan
PublisherNSYSU
Source SetsNSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
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Sourcehttp://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0726106-163105
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