TITLE:
Anonymous Authentication for Secure Mobile Agent Based Internet Business
AUTHORS:
Sivaraman Audithan, Thanjavur Swaminathan Murunya, Pandi Vijayakumar
KEYWORDS:
Mobile Agents, Authentication, Elliptic Curve Digital Signature, Computational Time, Servers
JOURNAL NAME:
Circuits and Systems,
Vol.7 No.8,
June
9,
2016
ABSTRACT: Nowadays, mobile agents
are an effective paradigm for accessing the information in distributed
applications, especially in a dynamic network environment such as Internet
businesses. In such kind of Internet based applications, access must be secure
and authentication takes a vital role to avoid malicious use of the system.
This kind of security has been provided by several previously proposed
algorithms based on RSA digital signature cryptography. However, the
computational time for performing encryption and decryption operations in the
past literatures is very high. In this paper, we propose an anonymous
authentication scheme which potentially reduces the overall computation time
needed for verifying the legitimacy of the users. Comparing with previous
anonymous authentication schemes, our proposed scheme provides more security
and it is effective in terms of computation cost. The experimental results show
that the proposed method authenticates the users with low computational time
significantly.