Evaluating Three Party Authentication and Key Agreement Protocols Using IP Multimedia Server–Client Systems

Abstract

Since the technologies of Internet and wireless communication have grown tremendously in the past, people have always occupied of some security sensitive wireless devices for the Internet services, such as voice call, instant messaging, online game, electronic banking, electronics trading and so on. Over a few decades, session key sharing has been used as a promising strategy for two/three parties authentication. In addition, several authentication and key agreement (AKA) protocols have been developed, but then very few protocols have been dedicated for the IP multimedia domain. In the literature, the 3-PAKE schemes, such as Xie et al., Xiong et al., Tallapally, Hsieh et al. and Tseng et al. have thoroughly been studied for the identification of its security weaknesses. Following are the security weaknesses of 3-PAKE schemes, namely user anonymity, known-key security, mutual authentication, (perfect) forward secrecy and so on. In addition, the existing schemes can not withstand for the attacks, like modification, key-impersonation, parallel-session, privileged-insider and so on. Thus, this paper presents a novel three party authentication and key agreement protocol based on computational Diffie---Hellman which not only fulfills all the security properties of AKA, but also provides the resiliency to the most of the potential attacks. Since the proposed 3-PAKE scheme has less computational overhead, it is able to curtail all the hop-by-hop security association defined by the standard of third generation partnership project. Above all, a real time multimedia server and client systems have been designed and developed for the purpose of average end-to-end delay analysis. The examination result is shown that the proposed 3-PAKE scheme can offer better service extensibility than the other 3-PAKE schemes, since it has the minimum message rounds to be executed for the establishment of service connection.