scholarly journals A Privacy Preserving Authentication Scheme for Roaming in IoT-Based Wireless Mobile Networks

Symmetry ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 287 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bander A. Alzahrani ◽  
Shehzad Ashraf Chaudhry ◽  
Ahmed Barnawi ◽  
Abdullah Al-Barakati ◽  
Mohammed H. Alsharif
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Networks ◽  
Secure Communication ◽  
Information Leakage ◽  
Computation Time ◽  
Home Network ◽  
Secret Key ◽  
Roaming User ◽  
Remote User ◽  
Automated Tool ◽  
Wireless Mobile

The roaming service enables a remote user to get desired services, while roaming in a foreign network through the help of his home network. The authentication is a pre-requisite for secure communication between a foreign network and the roaming user, which enables the user to share a secret key with foreign network for subsequent private communication of data. Sharing a secret key is a tedious task due to underneath open and insecure channel. Recently, a number of such schemes have been proposed to provide authentication between roaming user and the foreign networks. Very recently, Lu et al. claimed that the seminal Gopi-Hwang scheme fails to resist a session-specific temporary information leakage attack. Lu et al. then proposed an improved scheme based on Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) for roaming user. However, contrary to their claim, the paper provides an in-depth cryptanalysis of Lu et al.’s scheme to show the weaknesses of their scheme against Stolen Verifier and Traceability attacks. Moreover, the analysis also affirms that the scheme of Lu et al. entails incorrect login and authentication phases and is prone to scalability issues. An improved scheme is then proposed. The scheme not only overcomes the weaknesses Lu et al.’s scheme but also incurs low computation time. The security of the scheme is analyzed through formal and informal methods; moreover, the automated tool ProVerif also verifies the security features claimed by the proposed scheme.

scholarly journals A Novel Authentication Protocol with Strong Security for Roaming Service in Global Mobile Networks

Electronics ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (9) ◽  
pp. 939
Author(s):  
Shanpeng Liu ◽  
Xiong Li ◽  
Fan Wu ◽  
Junguo Liao ◽  
Jin Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Networks ◽  
Secure Communication ◽  
Discrete Logarithm ◽  
Computational Cost ◽  
Authentication Protocol ◽  
Mobile User ◽  
Home Network ◽  
Session Key ◽  
Lightweight Authentication ◽  
Computational Intractability

In today’s society, Global Mobile Networks (GLOMONETs) have become an important network infrastructure that provides seamless roaming service for mobile users when they leave their home network. Authentication is an essential mechanism for secure communication among the mobile user, home network, and foreign network in GLOMONET. Recently, Madhusudhan and Shashidhara presented a lightweight authentication protocol for roaming application in GLOMONET. However, we found their protocol not only has design flaws, but is also vulnerable to many attacks. To address these weaknesses, this paper proposes a novel authentication protocol with strong security for GLOMONET based on previous work. The fuzzy verifier technique makes the protocol free from smart card breach attack, while achieving the feature of local password change. Moreover, the computational intractability of the Discrete Logarithm Problem (DLP) guarantees the security of the session key. The security of the protocol is verified by the ProVerif tool. Compared with other related protocols, our protocol achieves a higher level of security at the expense of small increases in computational cost and communication cost. Therefore, it is more suitable for securing the roaming application in GLOMONET.

scholarly journals Clique Size in Sensor Networks with Key Pre-Distribution Based on Transversal Design

2005 ◽  
Vol 1 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 345-354 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dibyendu Chakrabarti ◽  
Subhamoy Maitra ◽  
Bimal Roy
Keyword(s):  
Sensor Networks ◽  
Distributed Computing ◽  
Secure Communication ◽  
Sensor Nodes ◽  
Transversal Design ◽  
Secret Key ◽  
Distributed Sensor Networks ◽  
Distributed Sensor

Key pre-distribution is an important area of research in Distributed Sensor Networks (DSN). Two sensor nodes are considered connected for secure communication if they share one or more common secret key(s). It is important to analyse the largest subset of nodes in a DSN where each node is connected to every other node in that subset (i.e., the largest clique). This parameter (largest clique size) is important in terms of resiliency and capability towards efficient distributed computing in a DSN. In this paper, we concentrate on the schemes where the key pre-distribution strategies are based on transversal design and study the largest clique sizes. We show that merging of blocks to construct a node provides larger clique sizes than considering a block itself as a node in a transversal design.

scholarly journals Drone Secure Communication Protocol for Future Sensitive Applications in Military Zone

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (6) ◽  
pp. 2057
Author(s):  
Yongho Ko ◽  
Jiyoon Kim ◽  
Daniel Gerbi Duguma ◽  
Philip Virgil Astillo ◽  
Ilsun You ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Performance Evaluation ◽  
Secure Communication ◽  
Communication Protocol ◽  
Denial Of Service ◽  
Mutual Authentication ◽  
Information Leakage ◽  
Security Protocol ◽  
Security Requirements ◽  
Forward Secrecy ◽  
Perfect Forward Secrecy

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) plays a paramount role in various fields, such as military, aerospace, reconnaissance, agriculture, and many more. The development and implementation of these devices have become vital in terms of usability and reachability. Unfortunately, as they become widespread and their demand grows, they are becoming more and more vulnerable to several security attacks, including, but not limited to, jamming, information leakage, and spoofing. In order to cope with such attacks and security threats, a proper design of robust security protocols is indispensable. Although several pieces of research have been carried out with this regard, there are still research gaps, particularly concerning UAV-to-UAV secure communication, support for perfect forward secrecy, and provision of non-repudiation. Especially in a military scenario, it is essential to solve these gaps. In this paper, we studied the security prerequisites of the UAV communication protocol, specifically in the military setting. More importantly, a security protocol (with two sub-protocols), that serves in securing the communication between UAVs, and between a UAV and a Ground Control Station, is proposed. This protocol, apart from the common security requirements, achieves perfect forward secrecy and non-repudiation, which are essential to a secure military communication. The proposed protocol is formally and thoroughly verified by using the BAN-logic (Burrow-Abadi-Needham logic) and Scyther tool, followed by performance evaluation and implementation of the protocol on a real UAV. From the security and performance evaluation, it is indicated that the proposed protocol is superior compared to other related protocols while meeting confidentiality, integrity, mutual authentication, non-repudiation, perfect forward secrecy, perfect backward secrecy, response to DoS (Denial of Service) attacks, man-in-the-middle protection, and D2D (Drone-to-Drone) security.

scholarly journals Security Analysis of Discrete-Modulated Continuous-Variable Quantum Key Distribution over Seawater Channel

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (22) ◽  
pp. 4956 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xinchao Ruan ◽  
Hang Zhang ◽  
Wei Zhao ◽  
Xiaoxue Wang ◽  
Xuan Li ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Key Distribution ◽  
Secure Communication ◽  
Security Analysis ◽  
Finite Size ◽  
Key Distribution ◽  
Continuous Variable ◽  
Heterodyne Detection ◽  
Secret Key ◽  
Transmission Distance ◽  
Better Than

We investigate the optical absorption and scattering properties of four different kinds of seawater as the quantum channel. The models of discrete-modulated continuous-variable quantum key distribution (CV-QKD) in free-space seawater channel are briefly described, and the performance of the four-state protocol and the eight-state protocol in asymptotic and finite-size cases is analyzed in detail. Simulation results illustrate that the more complex is the seawater composition, the worse is the performance of the protocol. For different types of seawater channels, we can improve the performance of the protocol by selecting different optimal modulation variances and controlling the extra noise on the channel. Besides, we can find that the performance of the eight-state protocol is better than that of the four-state protocol, and there is little difference between homodyne detection and heterodyne detection. Although the secret key rate of the protocol that we propose is still relatively low and the maximum transmission distance is only a few hundred meters, the research on CV-QKD over the seawater channel is of great significance, which provides a new idea for the construction of global secure communication network.

Security Based Processed Video Distribution on Multi-Core System

2014 ◽  
Vol 984-985 ◽  
pp. 1357-1363
Author(s):  
M. Vinothini ◽  
M. Manikandan
Keyword(s):  
Computation Time ◽  
Communication Process ◽  
Secret Key ◽  
Core System ◽  
Ip Address ◽  
Video Distribution ◽  
Encryption And Decryption ◽  
Security Guarantees ◽  
Secured Communication ◽  
Parallel Fashion

During real time there are problems in transmitting video directly to the client. One of the main problems is, intermediate intelligent proxy can easily hack the data as the transmitter fails to address authentication, and fails to provide security guarantees. Hence we provide steganography and cryptography mechanisms like secure-code, IP address and checksum for authentication and AES algorithm with secret key for security. Although the hacker hacks the video during transmission, he cannot view the information. Based on IP address and secure-code, the authenticated user only can get connected to the transmitter and view the information. For further improvement in security, the video is converted into frames and these frames are split into groups and separate shared key is applied to each group of frames for encryption and decryption. This secured communication process is applied in image processing modules like face detection, edge detection and color object detection. To reduce the computation time multi-core CPU processing is utilized. Using multi-core, the tasks are processed in parallel fashion.

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