Instruct: Identify the main and secondary category of Arxiv papers based on the titles and abstracts
Query: Time-Assisted Authentication Protocol   Authentication is the first step toward establishing a service provider and
customer (C-P) association. In a mobile network environment, a lightweight and
secure authentication protocol is one of the most significant factors to
enhance the degree of service persistence. This work presents a secure and
lightweight keying and authentication protocol suite termed TAP (Time-Assisted
Authentication Protocol). TAP improves the security of protocols with the
assistance of time-based encryption keys and scales down the authentication
complexity by issuing a re-authentication ticket. While moving across the
network, a mobile customer node sends a re-authentication ticket to establish
new sessions with service-providing nodes. Consequently, this reduces the
communication and computational complexity of the authentication process. In
the keying protocol suite, a key distributor controls the key generation
arguments and time factors, while other participants independently generate a
keychain based on key generation arguments. We undertake a rigorous security
analysis and prove the security strength of TAP using CSP and rank function
analysis.

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The categories of this paper are: math-ph
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The categories of this paper are: eess
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The categories of this paper are: hep-ex
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The categories of this paper are: hep-th
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The categories of this paper are: hep-ph
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The categories of this paper are: atom-ph
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The categories of this paper are: cmp-lg
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The categories of this paper are: bayes-an
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The categories of this paper are: hep-lat
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The categories of this paper are: ao-sci
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The categories of this paper are: quant-ph
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The categories of this paper are: math
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The categories of this paper are: adap-org
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The categories of this paper are: gr-qc
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The categories of this paper are: funct-an
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The categories of this paper are: econ