3GPP authentication and key agreement protocol based on public key cryptosystem

The authentication and key agreement protocol adopted by 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) System Architecture Evolution (SAE) Release 8 standard was analyzed in contrast with 3G,and several security defects in SAE protocol were pointed out,then an improved 3GPP SAE authentication and key agreement protocol was put forward based on public key cryptosystem. In the new protocol,user's identity information and authentication vector in network domain were encrypted based on public key cryptosystem,public parent key adopted in local authentication was generated by random data. The security and efficiency of the proposed new scheme was analyzed at last. The analysis results show that the proposal can effectively solve the problems mentioned above and improve the security of protocol with less cost.