Title :
Improving the WTLS by means of Kerberos
Author :
Li, Hui ; Li, Jing-Yi ; Chen, Wen-Li ; Guo, Mei
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Inf., Beijing Univ. of Chem. Technol., Beijing, China
Abstract :
The wireless application protocol (WAP) is a protocol stack for wireless communication networks. Wireless transport layer security (WTLS) is the security protocol of the WAP and it operates over the transport layer. Analysis of the WTLS agreement reveals that the certification process in the handshake agreement presents a risk of intermediary anonymous attack that we denote man-in-the-middle-attack. This paper presents a way to mitigate this risk by addition of a Kerberos authentication system to the WTLS agreement in order to improve the security of the latter. At the same time, the paper gives a detailed description of the solutions involved in the data structure, a simulation model of the program, and discusses reasonable values for the simulation parameters.
Keywords :
cryptographic protocols; message authentication; radio networks; telecommunication security; transport protocols; Kerberos authentication system; WTLS; certification process; handshake agreement; intermediary anonymous attack; man-in-the-middle-attack; security protocol; wireless application protocol; wireless communication networks; wireless transport layer security; Authentication; Certification; Chemical technology; Communication system security; Cryptography; Data security; Data structures; Information security; Transport protocols; Wireless application protocol;
Conference_Titel :
IT in Medicine & Education, 2009. ITIME '09. IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Jinan
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3928-7
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3930-0
DOI :
10.1109/ITIME.2009.5236218
