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Using Identity-Based Cryptography in Mobile Applications

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International Joint Conference SOCO’13-CISIS’13-ICEUTE’13

Part of the book series: Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing ((AISC,volume 239))

Abstract

This work includes a review of two cases study of mobile applications that use Identity-Based Cryptography (IBC) to protect communications. It also describes a proposal of a new mobile application that combines the use of IBC for Wi-Fi or Bluetooth communication between smartphones, with the promising Near Field Communication (NFC) technology for secure authentication. The proposed scheme involves NFC pairing to establish as public key a piece of information linked to the device, such as the phone number, so that this information is then used in an IBC scheme for peer-to-peer communication. This is a work in progress, so the implementation of a prototype based on smartphones is still being improved.

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  1. Department of Statistics, O.R. and Computing, University of La Laguna, La Laguna, Spain

    V. Mora-Afonso & P. Caballero-Gil

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  1. Department of Civil Engineering, University of Burgos, Burgos, Spain

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  2. Department of Civil Engineering, University of Burgos, Burgos, Spain

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  3. German Workforce ADL Partnership Laboratory, Waltershausen, Germany

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  4. Scientific Network for Innovation and Research Excellence, Machine Intelligence Research Labs (MIR Labs), Auburn, Washington, USA

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  5. Department of Computer Science Faculty of Ele. Eng. & Computer Science, VŠB-TU Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic

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  6. Department of Computer Science, University of Sao Paulo at Sao Carlos, Sao Carlos, Brazil

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Mora-Afonso, V., Caballero-Gil, P. (2014). Using Identity-Based Cryptography in Mobile Applications. In: Herrero, Á., et al. International Joint Conference SOCO’13-CISIS’13-ICEUTE’13. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 239. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01854-6_54

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