Breaking an improved password authenticated key exchange protocol for imbalanced wireless networks

IEEE Communications Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 276-278

  Zhang, Muxiang ^a  

^a Verizon Laboratories   (United States)

Author keywords

Key exchange; Network security; Password authentication

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PUBLIC KEY CRYPTOGRAPHY; SECURITY OF DATA;

KEY EXCHANGE; NETWORK SECURITY; PASSWORD AUTHENTICATION;

WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 15744386905     PISSN: 10897798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LCOMM.2005.03005     Document Type: Article

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