Identity-Based Cryptography for Securing Mobile Phone Calls

Author

Smith, Matthew ; Schridde, Christian ; Agel, Björn ; Freisleben, Bernd

Author_Institution

Dept. of Math. & Comput. Sci., Univ. of Marburg, Marburg

fYear

2009

fDate

26-29 May 2009

Firstpage

365

Lastpage

370

Abstract

In this paper, an identity-based key agreement system for mobile telephony in GSM and UMTS networks is presented. The use of telephone numbers as public keys allows the system to piggyback much of the security overhead for key management to the existing GSM or UMTS infrastructure. The proposed approach offers solutions to the problems of multi-domain key generation, key distribution, multi-domain public parameter distribution and inter-domain key agreement.

Keywords

3G mobile communication; cellular radio; public key cryptography; telecommunication security; GSM network; UMTS network; identity-based cryptography; mobile phone call security; mobile telephony; public key management; telephone numbers; 3G mobile communication; Base stations; Cryptography; GSM; Identity-based encryption; Mobile computing; Mobile handsets; Protocols; Public key; Telephony; GSM; Identity Based Cryptography; Mobile Phones; Security; UMTS;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advanced Information Networking and Applications Workshops, 2009. WAINA '09. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Bradford

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3999-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-3639-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WAINA.2009.167

Filename

5136675

Link To Document

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