An improved and provably secure privacy preserving authentication protocol for SIP

• Published in: Peer-to-peer networking and applications Vol. 10; no. 1; pp. 1 - 15
• Main Authors: Chaudhry, Shehzad Ashraf, Naqvi, Husnain, Sher, Muhammad, Farash, Mohammad Sabzinejad, Hassan, Mahmood Ul
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer US 01.01.2017; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Authentication; Authentication protocols; Communications Engineering; Computer Communication Networks; Cryptography; Cybersecurity; Denial of service attacks; Engineering; Information Systems and Communication Service; Multimedia; Networks; Peer to peer computing; Privacy; Servers; Signal,Image and Speech Processing; Smart cards; Stopping; Elliptic curve cryptography; Provable security; ProVerif; Authenticated key agreement; Impersonation attack; Authentication

Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) has proved to be the integral part and parcel of any multimedia based application or IP-based telephony service that requires signaling. SIP supports HTTP digest based authentication, and is responsible for creating, maintaining and terminating sessions. To guarante...