Public key protocols for wireless communications.
Colin Boyd, DongGook Park · 1998
. Protocols for authentication and key establishment have special requirements in a wireless environment. In the next generation of wireless systems it is likely that public key based protocols will be employed. There are a number of important design decisions to be made in choosing an appropriate protocol. In this paper the design requirements are reviewed and some recently proposed public key protocols for wireless communications are examined. A new public key protocol is also proposed. 1 Introduction Security requirements in the emerging third generation of wireless communications will be considerably more comprehensive than those in the current second generation digital systems. Cryptographic protocols and algorithms need to be used in order to satisfy these requirements. Probably the most critical security interface is that between the user and network, characterised by the radio connection. The security of this interface is paramount in preventing fraudulent access to ne...