A New Privacy-Enhanced Authentication Scheme for Wireless Mesh Networks

Author

Feng, Yong ; Fan, Ming-yu ; Liu, Chang-ping

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. Sci. & Technol., Univ. of Electron. Sci. & Technol. of China, Chengdu

fYear

2008

fDate

13-15 Dec. 2008

Firstpage

265

Lastpage

269

Abstract

In wireless mesh networks (WMNs), preserving users´ privacy is an important but contradictory to security issue. To provide a new solution to the challenge, we propose an anonymous authentication scheme based on CPK and blind signature in the elliptic curve domain. The proposed scheme can not only provide fast and explicit mutual authentication between nodes, but also effectively preserve mesh users´ privacy. The analyse result indicates that the proposed scheme successfully satisfies both security and privacy.

Keywords

authorisation; data privacy; digital signatures; public key cryptography; radio networks; telecommunication security; CPK; anonymous authentication; blind signature; elliptic curve domain; explicit mutual authentication; fast mutual authentication; privacy-enhanced authentication; security issue; user privacy; wireless mesh networks; Authentication; Costs; Elliptic curve cryptography; Elliptic curves; Identity-based encryption; Phase shift keying; Privacy; Protection; Public key; Wireless mesh networks; Authentication; blind signature; combined public key (CPK); privacy; wireless mesh networks (WMNs);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Apperceiving Computing and Intelligence Analysis, 2008. ICACIA 2008. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Chengdu

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3427-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-3426-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICACIA.2008.4770020

Filename

4770020