Three party mutual authentication schemes for the virtual home environment in the next generation mobile network

Abstract

In the virtual home environment (VHE), which was proposed to offer global roaming and personal service environment portability, user's profiles and service logics are conveyed from home network to visited network to provide services at the visited network. Because user's profiles and service logics may contain confidential information, some procedures for mutual authentication among entities for offering confidence are needed. For these issues, we propose and analyze 3 party mutual authentication protocols adaptable to the VHE in 3G.