Password-Based SIMSec Protocol

Abstract

The purpose of the SIMSec protocol is to provide the infrastructure to enable secured access between the SIM (Subscriber Identity Module) card which doesn’t have an ephemeral key installed during production and the service provider. This infrastructure has a form based on agreements among the mobile network manufacturer, the user, the service provider and the card manufacturer. In order to secure transactions, authentication methods are used based on the fact that both parties can verify that they are the parties they claim to be. In this study, the key exchange and authentication models in the literature have been surveyed and the password-based authentication model is chosen. For the SIMSec protocol, the password-based authentication algorithm is integrated into the SIMSec protocol. Thanks to the proposed new structure, phase differences in the SIMSec protocol are shown. As a result, a new key exchange protocol is proposed for SIM cards.

Keywords

• Authentication
• Key
• Exchange
• SIMSec

Parola Tabanlı SIMSec Protokolü

Öz

943/5000 SIMSec protokolünün amacı, üretim sırasında Geçici anahtarı takılmamış olan SIM kart ile Servis Sağlayıcı arasında güvenli erişim sağlayacak altyapıyı sağlamaktır. Bu altyapı, Mobil Şebeke Üreticisi, Kullanıcı, Servis Sağlayıcı ve Kart Üreticisi arasındaki anlaşmalara dayanan bir forma sahiptir. İşlemleri güvence altına almak için, her iki tarafın da iddia ettikleri taraflar olduklarını doğrulayabilmeleri temelinde kimlik doğrulama yöntemleri kullanılmaktadır. Bu çalışmada, literatürdeki anahtar değişim ve kimlik doğrulama modelleri derlenmiş ve parola tabanlı kimlik doğrulama modeli üzerinde durulmuştur. SIMSec protokolü için, parola tabanlı kimlik doğrulama algoritması SIMSec protokolüne entegre edilmiştir. Önerilen yeni yapı sayesinde, SIMSec protokolünde faz farklılıkları meydana gelmiştir. Sonuç olarak, SIM kartlar için yeni bir anahtar değişim protokolü önerilmiştir.

Anahtar Kelimeler

• kimlik denetimi

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