Security simulator in mobile computing environment
Akio Takubo, Mitsunori Ishikawa, Takashi Watanabe, Tadanori Mizuno · 2002
In the global mobile computing environment the ideal is that the user accesses to the resources on the authorized network where the person is registered through any unauthorized network where the person is not registered from any location of transit. To make this ideal a reality, the user authentication system based on a third party authentication is vital at the access point of any unauthorized network on which the user is not registered. To achieve this goal, we have proposed the Global Mobile Authentication Protocol (GMAP) which reduces the use of the radio network to a minimum and enables user confirmation without leaking the user information. This study intended to verify GMAP's robust characteristics, involves an implementation of a security simulator (SS/AG) which generates a number of attack patterns to check safety of the message transmission and reception performance using the authentication protocol against these attacks. SS/AG is capable of generating the third party attacks on the network randomly or systematically. Moreover SS/AG is also characterized by the ability to allow each computer relating to the protocol to check the reaction to certain attack patterns or allow checking on the reaction of the entire authentication protocol.