Provably secure three-party authenticated key agreement protocol using smart cards》.pdf

Computer Networks 58 (2014) 29–38 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Computer Networks journal homepage: /locate/comnet Provably secure three-party authenticated key agreement protocol using smart cards Haomin Yang a,⇑, Yaoxue Zhang a, Yuezhi Zhou a, Xiaoming Fu b, Hao Liu a, Athanasios V. Vasilakos c a Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China b Institute of Computer Science, University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany c Department of Computer and Telecommunications Engineering, University of Western Macedonia, Kozani, Greece a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: Authenticated key agreement protocol is a useful cryptographic primitive, which can be Received 9 February 2012 used to protect the confidentiality, integrity and authenticity for transmitted data over Received in revised form 9 July 2013 insecure networks. From the point of view of the management of pre-shared secrets, one Accepted 26 August 2013 of the advantages of three-party authenticated key agreement (3PAKA) protocols is that Available online 31 August 2013 they are more suitable for use in a network with large numbers of users compared with two-party authenticated key agreement protocols. Using smart cards is a practical, secure Keywords: measure to protect the secret private keys of a user. Recently, some 3PAKA protocols using Three-party authenticated key agreem