Accelerating key establishment protocols for mobile communication

Abstract

Mobile communication is more vulnerable to security attacks such as interception and unauthorized access than fixed network communication. To overcome these problems, many protocols have been proposed to provide a secure channel between a mobile station and a base station. However, the public-key based protocols are not fully utilized due to the poor computing power and the small battery capacity of a mobile station. In this paper, we propose some technique's accelerating public-key based key establishment protocols between a mobile station and a base station. The proposed techniques enable a mobile station to borrow computing power from a base station without revealing its secret information. The proposed schemes accelerate the previous protocols up to five times and reduce the amount of power consumption of a mobile station. The proposed schemes use SASC (Server-Aided Secret Computation) protocols that are used for smart cards. Our insight is that the unbalanced property in computing power of the mobile communication is similar to that of the smart card system. The acceleration degrees of the proposed schemes are quite different from one another according to the used SASC protocols. In this paper, we analyze the acceleration factors of the proposed schemes and compare them with one another. The analysis shows that one of the approach presents outstanding performance among them.