Anonymous Channel and Authentication in Wireless

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a scheme for providing anonymous channel service in wireless communications. By this service, many interesting applications, such as electronic elections, anonymous discussion groups, with user identification confidential can be easily realized. No one can trace the sender’s identification and no one but the authority centre can distinguish anonymous messages from normal messages when a user uses the anonymous channel. In our proposed scheme, we also consider the key distribution problem. Our scheme can be easily applied to existing wireless systems, such as GSM and CDPD.