Visible to the public An Enhanced SIP Authentication Protocol for Preserving User Privacy

TitleAn Enhanced SIP Authentication Protocol for Preserving User Privacy
Publication TypeConference Paper
Year of Publication2020
AuthorsNaveed, Sarah, Sultan, Aiman, Mansoor, Khwaja
Conference Name2020 International Conference on Cyber Warfare and Security (ICCWS)
Keywordsauthentication, authentication protocol, composability, compositionality, Databases, History, password, policy-based governance, privacy, protocol verification, Protocols, ProVerif, pubcrawl, security, Servers, Session initiation protocol (SIP)
AbstractOwing to the advancements in communication media and devices all over the globe, there has arisen a dire need for to limit the alarming number of attacks targeting these and to enhance their security. Multiple techniques have been incorporated in different researches and various protocols and schemes have been put forward to cater security issues of session initiation protocol (SIP). In 2008, Qiu et al. presented a proposal for SIP authentication which while effective than many existing schemes, was still found vulnerable to many security attacks. To overcome those issues, Zhang et al. proposed an authentication protocol. This paper presents the analysis of Zhang et al. authentication scheme and concludes that their proposed scheme is susceptible to user traceablity. It also presents an improved SIP authentication scheme that eliminates the possibility of traceability of user's activities. The proposed scheme is also verified by contemporary verification tool, ProVerif and it is found to be more secure, efficient and practical than many similar SIP authetication scheme.
DOI10.1109/ICCWS48432.2020.9292398
Citation Keynaveed_enhanced_2020