An Efficient User Authentication and Session Key Agreement in Wireless Sensor Network Using Smart Card

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chukhu Chunka ◽  
Subhasish Banerjee ◽  
Rajat Subhra Goswami
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Sensor Network ◽  
Sensor Network ◽  
Smart Card ◽  
Key Agreement ◽  
User Authentication ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Session Key ◽  
Session Key Agreement

scholarly journals A study on user authentication and key agreement protocol in wireless sensor network

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2.12) ◽  
pp. 58
Author(s):  
Jae Young Lee
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Sensor Network ◽  
Smart Card ◽  
Key Agreement ◽  
User Authentication ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Authentication And Key Agreement ◽  
Key Agreement Protocol ◽  
Legitimate User ◽  
The Times ◽  
Guessing Attack

Background/Objectives: The user authentication and key agreement protocol proposed by Jung et al., which is suitable for a wireless sensor network environment is vulnerable to an attack in which a user who is issued a smart card from the gateway, completing the registration step disguises as a random user.Methods/Statistical analysis: This study proposed a method of improving the problem of the security technique proposed by Jung et al., which is vulnerable to a user impersonation attack. This method uses the variable that recorded the times of a user’s request for registration to the gateway in the registration step in which the user is registered to the gateway and a smart card is issued and the login step in which the user issued the smart card is authenticated as a legitimate user.Findings: The security technique proposed in this study consists of four steps, same as the security technique of user authentication and key agreement proposed by Jung et al. In the first step, the registration step, if a user requests for registration to the gateway, the variables that recorded the times of the user’s request for registration (User: Un and Gateway: Gn) are renewed and stored respectively by the user and the gateway. Once the registration step is completed, the user who got a smart card issued from the gateway is authenticated as a legitimate user in the login step, using the issued smart card, ID, password and Un. When the login step is completed, in the third step, the authentication step, the authentication procedures are carried out for the gateway and the sensor node.An attacker obtains a user’s information through various attacks, such as smart-card loss attack, ID-guessing attack or password-guessing attack and attempts the login step, using the obtained information. However, the technique proposed in this study needs the variable that recorded the times of the user’s request for registration to the gateway in addition to a smart card, ID and password to proceed with user authentication in the login step. This variable is a value that only the user and the gateway know, not transmitted in any steps. The attacker who does not know the times of requests for registration cannot proceed with the login step, and the attacker cannot be authenticated as a legitimate user without proceeding to the login step. Thus, the user authentication and key agreement protocol proposed in this study is safe from an attacker’s attack of impersonation as a user.Improvements/Applications: This study proposed a technique of using the variable that recorded the times of the user’s request for registration to the gateway, managed and stored only by the user and the gateway, not transmitted in any steps in user authentication. The proposed technique is safe from an attacker’s attack of impersonation as a user.  

Secured and flexible user authentication protocol for wireless sensor network

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 253-265
Author(s):  
Prabu P ◽  
Senthilnathan T
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Sensor Network ◽  
Sensor Network ◽  
User Authentication ◽  
Authentication Protocol ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Effective Manner ◽  
Sensor Devices ◽  
Brute Force Attack

PurposeIn wireless sensor network (WSN), user authentication plays as a vital role in which data sensing, as well as sharing, will be spoiled by hackers. To enhance user security, user authentication must be focused.Design/methodology/approachIn previous works, for secured authentication, Enhanced User Authentication Protocol (EUAP) is presented. On the other hand, the user free password generation is permitted in the previous technique.FindingsHere, password leakage may cause a malevolent user's contribution to the WSN environment. By presenting the Flexible and Secured User Authentication Protocol (FSUAP), this is solved in the presented technique in which secured as well as reliable sharing of data contents via unsecured wireless sensor devices was accomplished.Originality/valueThe foremost objective of the present technique is to device the protocol that would verify the users beforehand letting them access the sensor devices situated in various sites. The use of a sensor device could be reduced in a significant way. Three-factor authentication protocols are presented in place of two-factor authentication protocol in the presented technique that could deal with and safeguard the environment from a brute force attack in an effective manner.

scholarly journals An Efficient and Secure Session Key Management Scheme in Wireless Sensor Network

Complexity ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Gulzar Mehmood ◽  
Muhammad Sohail Khan ◽  
Abdul Waheed ◽  
Mahdi Zareei ◽  
Muhammad Fayaz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Wireless Sensor Network ◽  
Sensor Network ◽  
Key Management ◽  
Energy Efficient ◽  
Sensor Nodes ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Session Key ◽  
Management Scheme ◽  
Key Management Scheme

Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is a particular network built from small sensor nodes. These sensor nodes have unique features. That is, it can sense and process data in WSN. WSN has tremendous applications in many fields. Despite the significance of WSN, this kind of network faced several issues. The biggest problems rising in WSN are energy consumption and security. Robust security development is needed to cope with WSN applications. For security purposes in WSN, cryptography techniques are very favorable. However, WSN has resource limitations, which is the main problem in applying any security scheme. Hence, if we are using the cryptography scheme in WSN, we must first guarantee that it must be energy-efficient. Thus, we proposed a secure hybrid session key management scheme for WSN. In this scheme, the major steps of public key cryptography are minimized, and much of the operations are based on symmetric key cryptography. This strategy extensively reduces the energy consumption of WSN and ensures optimum security. The proposed scheme is implemented, and their analysis is performed using different parameters with benchmark schemes. We concluded that the proposed scheme is energy-efficient and outperforms the available benchmark schemes. Furthermore, it provides an effective platform for secure key agreements and management in the WSN environment.

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