An Efficient Two-Factor User Authentication Framework for Wireless Sensor Networks

Nowadays, Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are appeared to be new and promising solutions for next generation real-time wireless monitoring applications. These WSNs could become a threat if suitable security is not considered before the deployment. However, if there is any loophole in security, that might opens the door to attackers and hence, endanger for the applications. So, user authentication is one of the core requirements to protect WSNs data access from the unauthorized users. In this regard, we propose an efficient two-factor user authentication for WSNs, which is based on password and smart card (two-factors). Our scheme provides mutual authentication, enables the user to choose and change their password frequently. Moreover, they provides strong protection against different kind of attacks at reasonable computation cost.

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Cryptanalysis and improvement of mutual authentication protocol for real-time data access in industrial wireless sensor networks

International Journal of Computers and Applications ◽

10.1080/1206212x.2020.1825159 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 1-14

Author(s):

Devender Kumar ◽

Sai Kishore Pachigolla ◽

Shubham Singh Manhas ◽

Karan Rawat

Keyword(s):

Wireless Sensor Networks ◽

Sensor Networks ◽

Mutual Authentication ◽

Data Access ◽

Authentication Protocol ◽

Wireless Sensor ◽

Time Data ◽

Industrial Wireless Sensor Networks ◽

Real Time Data ◽

Mutual Authentication Protocol

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Lightweight and Physically Secure Anonymous Mutual Authentication Protocol for Real-Time Data Access in Industrial Wireless Sensor Networks

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics ◽

10.1109/tii.2019.2895030 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 15 (9) ◽

pp. 4957-4968 ◽

Cited By ~ 43

Author(s):

Prosanta Gope ◽

Ashok Kumar Das ◽

Neeraj Kumar ◽

Yongqiang Cheng

Keyword(s):

Wireless Sensor Networks ◽

Sensor Networks ◽

Mutual Authentication ◽

Data Access ◽

Authentication Protocol ◽

Wireless Sensor ◽

Time Data ◽

Industrial Wireless Sensor Networks ◽

Real Time Data ◽

Mutual Authentication Protocol

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SLUA-WSN: Secure and Lightweight Three-Factor-Based User Authentication Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks

Sensors ◽

10.3390/s20154143 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 20 (15) ◽

pp. 4143 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

SungJin Yu ◽

YoungHo Park

Keyword(s):

Wireless Sensor Networks ◽

Sensor Networks ◽

User Authentication ◽

Formal Analysis ◽

Mutual Authentication ◽

Authentication Protocol ◽

Sensor Nodes ◽

Wireless Sensor ◽

Security Threats ◽

Three Factor

Wireless sensor networks (WSN) are composed of multiple sensor nodes with limited storage, computation, power, and communication capabilities and are widely used in various fields such as banks, hospitals, institutes to national defense, research, and so on. However, useful services are susceptible to security threats because sensitive data in various fields are exchanged via a public channel. Thus, secure authentication protocols are indispensable to provide various services in WSN. In 2019, Mo and Chen presented a lightweight secure user authentication scheme in WSN. We discover that Mo and Chen’s scheme suffers from various security flaws, such as session key exposure and masquerade attacks, and does not provide anonymity, untraceability, and mutual authentication. To resolve the security weaknesses of Mo and Chen’s scheme, we propose a secure and lightweight three-factor-based user authentication protocol for WSN, called SLUA-WSN. The proposed SLUA-WSN can prevent security threats and ensure anonymity, untraceability, and mutual authentication. We analyze the security of SLUA-WSN through the informal and formal analysis, including Burrows–Abadi–Needham (BAN) logic, Real-or-Random (ROR) model, and Automated Verification of Internet Security Protocols and Applications (AVISPA) simulation. Moreover, we compare the performance of SLUA-WSN with some existing schemes. The proposed SLUA-WSN better ensures the security and efficiency than previous proposed scheme and is suitable for practical WSN applications.

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Cryptanalysis on Privacy-aware two-factor Authentication Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks

Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science ◽

10.11591/ijeecs.v8.i2.pp296-301 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 8 (2) ◽

pp. 296

Author(s):

Younsung Choi

Keyword(s):

Wireless Sensor Networks ◽

Sensor Networks ◽

Elliptic Curve Cryptography ◽

User Authentication ◽

Mutual Authentication ◽

Authentication Protocol ◽

Wireless Sensor ◽

Dos Attacks ◽

Authentication Protocols ◽

Symmetric Key

Das first proposed two-factor authentication combining the smart card and password to resolve the security problems of wireless sensor networks (WSNs). After that, various researchers studied two-factor authentication suitable for WSNs. In user authentication protocols based on the symmetric key approach, a number of elliptic curve cryptography (ECC)-based authentication protocols have been proposed. To resolve the security and efficiency problems of ECC-based two-factor authentication protocols, Jiang et al. proposed a privacy-aware two-factor authentication protocol based on ECC for WSNs. However, this paper performs a vulnerability analysis on Jiang et al.’s authentication protocol and shows that it has security problems, such as a lack of mutual authentication, a risk of SID modification and DoS attacks, a lack of sensor anonymity, and weak ID anonymity.

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Cryptanalysis on Privacy-Aware Two-factor Authentication Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks

International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) ◽

10.11591/ijece.v8i1.pp605-610 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

pp. 605

Author(s):

Younsung Choi

Keyword(s):

Wireless Sensor Networks ◽

Sensor Networks ◽

Elliptic Curve Cryptography ◽

User Authentication ◽

Mutual Authentication ◽

Authentication Protocol ◽

Wireless Sensor ◽

Dos Attacks ◽

Authentication Protocols ◽

Symmetric Key

Das first proposed two-factor authentication combining the smart card and password to resolve the security problems of wireless sensor networks (WSNs). After that, various researchers studied two-factor authentication suitable for WSNs. In user authentication protocols based on the symmetric key approach, a number of elliptic curve cryptography (ECC)-based authentication protocols have been proposed. To resolve the security and efficiency problems of ECC-based two-factor authentication protocols, Jiang et al. proposed a privacy-aware two-factor authentication protocol based on ECC for WSNs. However, this paper performs a vulnerability analysis on Jiang et al.’s authentication protocol and shows that it has security problems, such as a lack of mutual authentication, a risk of SID modification and DoS attacks, a lack of sensor anonymity, and weak ID anonymity.

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