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Tommi Meskanen

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A Beyond-5G Authentication and Key Agreement Protocol

The standardized Authentication and Key Agreement protocol for 5G networks (5G AKA) have several security and privacy vulnerabilities. In this paper, we propose a novel authentication and key agreement protocol for 5G and beyond that is compatible with the standardized 5G AKA. Our protocol has several privacy and security properties, e.g., perfect forward secrecy, resistance against linkability attacks, and protection against malicious SNs. Moreover, both the user identity protection and the perfect forward secrecy are handled using Key Encapsulation Mechanisms (KEM), which makes our protocol adaptable to the quantum-safe setting. To analyze the performance of the proposed protocol, we use the post-quantum KEM CRYSTALS-Kyber, recently chosen to be standardized by NIST, and NIST post-quantum Round 4 candidate KEMs. The results for communication and computation costs show that utilizing our protocol is feasible in practice and sometimes outperforms the public-key cryptography used in 5G AKA, i.e., ECIES. We further prove the security of our protocol by utilizing ProVerif.

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Multi-party Private Set Operations with an External Decider

A Private Set Operation (PSO) protocol involves at least two parties with their private input sets. The goal of the protocol is for the parties to learn the output of a set operation, i.e. set intersection, on their input sets, without revealing any information about the items that are not in the output set. Commonly, the outcome of the set operation is revealed to parties and no-one else. However, in many application areas of PSO the result of the set operation should be learned by an external participant whom does not have an input set. We call this participant the decider. In this paper, we present new variants of multi-party PSO, where there is a decider who gets the result. All parties expect the decider have a private set. Other parties neither learn this result, nor anything else about this protocol. Moreover, we present a generic solution to the problem of PSO.

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