Mutual Authentication and Key Agreement based on Elliptic Curve Cryptography for GSM

In this paper we propose an improvement to the GSM authentication protocol, based on Elliptic Curve Cryptography. The proposed protocol offers enhanced security since it does not use A5/0, A5/1 and A5/2 algorithms which have been already broken. The proposed protocol provides mutual authentication, requires less storage, avoids replay attack and consumes smaller network bandwidth.

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