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A strongly secure pairing-free certificateless authenticated key agreement protocol suitable for smart media and mobile environments

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The authenticated key agreement (AKA) protocol is an important cryptographic mechanism, which allows two users to establish a session key for future communication. Recently, the certificateless public key cryptography received wide attention since it could solve the certificate management problem in the traditional public key cryptography and solve the key escrow problem in the identity-based public key cryptography. In this paper, we present a strongly secure certificateless authenticated key agreement (CLAKA) protocol without pairing suitable for smart media and mobile environments, which is provably secure in the extended Canetti–Krawczyk (eCK) model and is secure as long as each party has at least one uncompromised secret. Compared with previous CLAKA protocols, our protocol has advantages over them in security or efficiency.

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This research was supported by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education (grant number 2013R1A1A2059864).

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  1. School of Computer, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

    Hang Tu

  2. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Thapar University, Patiala, India

    Neeraj Kumar

  3. Department of Mathematics and Department of Financial Information Security (BK21 Plus Future Financial Information Security Specialist Education Group), Kookmin University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

    Jongsung Kim

  4. National Security Research Institute (NSRI), Daejeon, Republic of Korea

    Jungtaek Seo

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Tu, H., Kumar, N., Kim, J. et al. A strongly secure pairing-free certificateless authenticated key agreement protocol suitable for smart media and mobile environments. Multimed Tools Appl 74, 6365–6377 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-015-2470-3

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