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A novel authentication and key‐agreement scheme for satellite communication network
Author(s) -
Altaf Izwa,
Arslan Akram Muhammad,
Mahmood Khalid,
kumari Saru,
Xiong Hu,
Khurram Khan Muhammad
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
transactions on emerging telecommunications technologies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.366
H-Index - 47
ISSN - 2161-3915
DOI - 10.1002/ett.3894
Subject(s) - computer science , computer security , authentication protocol , key agreement protocol , authentication (law) , computer network , session key , forward secrecy , otway–rees protocol , denial of service attack , challenge handshake authentication protocol , protocol (science) , key (lock) , mutual authentication , replay attack , simple (philosophy) , public key cryptography , key distribution , the internet , encryption , medicine , philosophy , alternative medicine , epistemology , pathology , world wide web
Summary In these days, satellite communication networks are playing a significant role in facilitating the crucial infrastructural services that include environmental monitoring, electronic surveillance, public safety, intelligence operations for law enforcement, government agencies, and the military. However, security researchers have uncovered that many protocols for these satellite communication networks have some vulnerabilities and flaws that can allow remote attackers to intercept, block, and manipulate critical communication over the network. Therefore, in this article, we introduce an efficient and simple authentication key agreement protocol for securing mobile satellite communication systems. Our proposed protocol resists against denial of service, smart‐card stolen, replay, user impersonation, and stolen verifier attack. Furthermore, our protocol provides various functionality features like perfect‐forward secrecy, mutual‐authentication, dynamic identity, and session‐key agreement. Moreover, the performance analysis of our protocol shows that the communication and computation cost of the proposed protocol is far less than the existing protocols. Hence, our proposed protocol offers simple, efficient, secure authentication, and key agreement for mobile satellite systems.