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Conference on Computer and Communications Security archive
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Conference on Computer and communications security table of contents

Fairfax, Virginia, United States

Pages: 10 - 17

Year of Publication: 1994

ISBN:0-89791-732-4

Author

V. Bharghavan

CS Division, Department of EECS, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA

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SIGSAC: ACM Special Interest Group on Security, Audit, and Control

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

Mobile computing is a major area of current research. A variety of wirelessly networked mobile devices now make it possible for a physically untethered computer to function in a fully networked manner. Recent research has focussed on providing the mobile user a seamless environment of wired and wireless networks. One of the major hurdles in providing such a seamless environment is that wireless media are inherently less secure.In this paper, we propose a security scheme for wireless media which permits secure communication over a single wireless channel. Our scheme allows both communicating parties to authenticate each other and establish a shared key for secure communication. An unauthorized snooper cannot even discover the identity of the communicating parties. Mobile computers are thus provided a highly secure wireless environment. We describe an efficient practical implementation of the scheme and prove its correctness.

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CITED BY 6

	Azzedine Boukerche, Security and fraud detection in mobile and wireless networks, Handbook of wireless networks and mobile computing, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, NY, 2002
	Chii-Hwa Lee , Min-Shiang Hwang , Wei-Pang Yang, Enhanced privacy and authentication for the global system for mobile communications, Wireless Networks, v.5 n.4, p.231-243, July 1999
	Ahmed Abdo Ali, Security design for a new local area network AULWLAN, Proceedings of the 4th international conference conference on Computer systems and technologies: e-Learning, p.19-25, June 19-20, 2003, Rousse, Bulgaria
	Sajal K. Das , Afrand Agah , Kalyan Basu, Security in wireless mobile and sensor networks, Wireless communications systems and networks, Plenum Press, New York, NY, 2004
	Zhi-Jia Tzeng , Wen-Guey Tzeng, Authentication of Mobile Users in Third Generation Mobile Systems, Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal, v.16 n.1, p.35-50, January 2001
	Danai Patiyoot , S. J. Shepherd, Cryptographic security Techniques for wireless networks, ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review, v.33 n.2, p.36-50, April 1999