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Toward Designing a Secure Authentication Protocol for IoT Environments

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  • Mehdi Hosseinzadeh

    (Institute of Research and Development, Duy Tan University, Da Nang 550000, Vietnam
    School of Medicine and Pharmacy, Duy Tan University, Da Nang 550000, Vietnam
    Computer Science, University of Human Development, Sulaymaniyah 0778-6, Iraq)

  • Mazhar Hussain Malik

    (School of Computing and Creative Technologies College of Arts, Technology and Environment (CATE) University of the West of England Frenchay Campus, Coldharbour Lane, Bristol BS16 1QY, UK)

  • Masoumeh Safkhani

    (Faculty of Computer Engineering, Shahid Rajaee Teacher Training University, Tehran P.O. Box 16788-15811, Iran
    School of Computer Science, Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), Tehran P.O. Box 19395-5746, Iran)

  • Nasour Bagheri

    (School of Computer Science, Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), Tehran P.O. Box 19395-5746, Iran
    Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Shahid Rajaee Teacher Training University, Tehran P.O. Box 16788-15811, Iran)

  • Quynh Hoang Le

    (Institute of Research and Development, Duy Tan University, Da Nang 550000, Vietnam
    School of Medicine and Pharmacy, Duy Tan University, Da Nang 550000, Vietnam)

  • Lilia Tightiz

    (School of Computing, Gachon University, 1342 Seongnamdaero, Seongnam 13120, Republic of Korea)

  • Amir H. Mosavi

    (John von Neumann Faculty of Informatics, Obuda University, 1034 Budapest, Hungary
    Institute of the Information Society, University of Public Service, 1083 Budapest, Hungary)

Abstract

Authentication protocol is a critical part of any application to manage the access control in many applications. A former research recently proposed a lightweight authentication scheme to transmit data in an IoT subsystem securely. Although the designers presented the first security analysis of the proposed protocol, that protocol has not been independently analyzed by third-party researchers, to the best of our knowledge. On the other hand, it is generally agreed that no cryptosystem should be used in a practical application unless its security has been verified through security analysis by third parties extensively, which is addressed in this paper. Although it is an efficient protocol by design compared to other related schemes, our security analysis identifies the non-ideal properties of this protocol. More specifically, we show that this protocol does not provide perfect forward secrecy. In addition, we show that it is vulnerable to an insider attacker, and an active insider adversary can successfully recover the shared keys between the protocol’s entities. In addition, such an adversary can impersonate the remote server to the user and vice versa. Next, the adversary can trace the target user using the extracted information. Finally, we redesign the protocol such that the enhanced protocol can withstand all the aforementioned attacks. The overhead of the proposed protocol compared to its predecessor is only 15.5% in terms of computational cost.

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  • Mehdi Hosseinzadeh & Mazhar Hussain Malik & Masoumeh Safkhani & Nasour Bagheri & Quynh Hoang Le & Lilia Tightiz & Amir H. Mosavi, 2023. "Toward Designing a Secure Authentication Protocol for IoT Environments," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(7), pages 1-16, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:15:y:2023:i:7:p:5934-:d:1110598
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    1. Jan Lansky & Amir Masoud Rahmani & Saqib Ali & Nasour Bagheri & Masoumeh Safkhani & Omed Hassan Ahmed & Mehdi Hosseinzadeh, 2021. "BCmECC: A Lightweight Blockchain-Based Authentication and Key Agreement Protocol for Internet of Things," Mathematics, MDPI, vol. 9(24), pages 1-17, December.
    2. Seunghwan Son & Yohan Park & Youngho Park, 2021. "A Secure, Lightweight, and Anonymous User Authentication Protocol for IoT Environments," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(16), pages 1-21, August.
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