scholarly journals A Light and Anonymous Three-Factor Authentication Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks

Symmetry ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 46
Author(s):  
Lianghong Zhu ◽  
Huaikun Xiang ◽  
Kai Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Sensor Networks ◽  
Sensor Networks ◽  
Key Agreement ◽  
Security Analysis ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Cryptographic Primitives ◽  
Logic Verification ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Agreement Protocols ◽  
Three Factor

Recently, wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have been widely used in a variety of fields, and make people’s lives more convenient and efficient. However, WSNs are usually deployed in a harsh and insecure environment. Furthermore, sensors with limited hardware resources have a low capacity for data processing and communication. For these reasons, research on efficient and secure real-time authentication and key agreement protocols based on the characteristics of WSNs has gradually attracted the attention of academics. Although many schemes have been proposed, most of them cannot achieve all known security features with satisfactory performance, among which anonymity, N-Factor security, and forward secrecy are the most vulnerable. In order to solve these shortcomings, we propose a new lightweight and anonymous three-factor authentication scheme based on symmetric cryptographic primitives for WSNs. By using the automated security verification tool ProVerif, BAN-logic verification, and an informal security analysis, we prove that our proposed scheme is secure and realizes all known security features in WSNs. Moreover, we show that our proposed scheme is practical and efficient through the comparison of security features and performance.

scholarly journals A Provably Secure Three-Factor Authentication Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Tsu-Yang Wu ◽  
Lei Yang ◽  
Zhiyuan Lee ◽  
Shu-Chuan Chu ◽  
Saru Kumari ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Sensor Networks ◽  
Sensor Networks ◽  
Formal Analysis ◽  
Authentication Protocol ◽  
Sensor Nodes ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Sensitive Data ◽  
Computational Overhead ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Three Factor

The wireless sensor network is a network composed of sensor nodes self-organizing through the application of wireless communication technology. The application of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) requires high security, but the transmission of sensitive data may be exposed to the adversary. Therefore, to guarantee the security of information transmission, researchers propose numerous security authentication protocols. Recently, Wu et al. proposed a new three-factor authentication protocol for WSNs. However, we find that their protocol cannot resist key compromise impersonation attacks and known session-specific temporary information attacks. Meanwhile, it also violates perfect forward secrecy and anonymity. To overcome the proposed attacks, this paper proposes an enhanced protocol in which the security is verified by the formal analysis and informal analysis, Burross-Abadii-Needham (BAN) logic, and ProVerif tools. The comparison of security and performance proves that our protocol has higher security and lower computational overhead.

Anonymous three-factor authenticated key agreement for wireless sensor networks

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 1461-1475 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yanrong Lu ◽  
Guangquan Xu ◽  
Lixiang Li ◽  
Yixian Yang
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Sensor Networks ◽  
Sensor Networks ◽  
Key Agreement ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Authenticated Key Agreement ◽  
Three Factor

scholarly journals Secure and Efficient Three-Factor Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks

Sensors ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (12) ◽  
pp. 4481 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jihyeon Ryu ◽  
Hakjun Lee ◽  
Hyoungshick Kim ◽  
Dongho Won
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Wireless Sensor Networks ◽  
Sensor Networks ◽  
Security Analysis ◽  
Security Protocols ◽  
User Anonymity ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Speed Up ◽  
Inherent Nature ◽  
Three Factor

Wireless sensor networks are widely used in many applications such as environmental monitoring, health care, smart grid and surveillance. Many security protocols have been proposed and intensively studied due to the inherent nature of wireless networks. In particular, Wu et al. proposed a promising authentication scheme which is sufficiently robust against various attacks. However, according to our analysis, Wu et al.’s scheme has two serious security weaknesses against malicious outsiders. First, their scheme can lead to user impersonation attacks. Second, user anonymity is not preserved in their scheme. In this paper, we present these vulnerabilities of Wu et al.’s scheme in detail. We also propose a new scheme to complement their weaknesses. We improve and speed up the vulnerability of the Wu et al. scheme. Security analysis is analyzed by Proverif and informal analysis is performed for various attacks.

scholarly journals A Lightweight Secure User Authentication and Key Agreement Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiaqing Mo ◽  
Hang Chen
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Sensor Networks ◽  
Sensor Networks ◽  
Secure Communication ◽  
Key Agreement ◽  
Wireless Channel ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Session Key ◽  
Key Agreement Protocol ◽  
Authentication Mechanism ◽  
Three Factor

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have great potential for numerous domains of application because of their ability to sense and understand unattended environments. However, a WSN is subject to various attacks due to the openness of the public wireless channel. Therefore, a secure authentication mechanism is vital to enable secure communication within WSNs, and many studies on authentication techniques have been presented to build robust WSNs. Recently, Lu et al. analyzed the security defects of the previous ones and proposed an anonymous three-factor authenticated key agreement protocol for WSNs. However, we found that their protocol is vulnerable to some security weaknesses, such as the offline password guessing attack, known session-specific temporary information attack, and no session key backward secrecy. We propose a lightweight security-improved three-factor authentication scheme for WSNs to overcome the previously stated weaknesses. In addition, the improved scheme is proven to be secure under the random oracle model, and a formal verification is conducted by ProVerif to reveal that the proposal achieves the required security features. Moreover, the theoretical analysis indicates that the proposal can resist known attacks. A comparison with related works demonstrates that the proposed scheme is superior due to its reasonable performance and additional security features.

scholarly journals Security Analysis and Improvements of Two-Factor Mutual Authentication with Key Agreement in Wireless Sensor Networks

Sensors ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 6443-6462 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiye Kim ◽  
Donghoon Lee ◽  
Woongryul Jeon ◽  
Youngsook Lee ◽  
Dongho Won
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Sensor Networks ◽  
Sensor Networks ◽  
Key Agreement ◽  
Mutual Authentication ◽  
Security Analysis ◽  
Wireless Sensor

An efficient anonymous user authentication and key agreement protocol for wireless sensor networks

2021 ◽  
Vol 34 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Devender Kumar ◽  
Harmanpreet Singh Grover ◽  
Damandeep Kaur ◽  
Adarsh Verma ◽  
Khushil Kumar Saini ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Sensor Networks ◽  
Sensor Networks ◽  
Key Agreement ◽  
User Authentication ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Authentication And Key Agreement ◽  
Key Agreement Protocol
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