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http://dx.doi.org/10.33778/kcsa.2021.21.1.055

Security Improvement of User Authentication Protocol for Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks for the Internet of Things Environment  

Lee, Young sook (호원대학교 IT소프트웨어보안학과)
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Convergence Security Journal / v.21, no.1, 2021 , pp. 55-62 More about this Journal
Abstract
Recently, the use of sensor devices is gradually increasing. As various sensor device emerge and the related technologies advance, there has been a dramatic increase in the interest in heterogeneous wireless sensor networks (WSNs). While sensor device provide us many valuable benefits, automatically and remotely supported services offered and accessed remotely through WSNs also exposes us to many different types of security threats. Most security threats were just related to information leakage and the loss of authentication among the involved parties: users, sensors and gateways. An user authentication protocol for wireless sensor networks is designed to restrict access to the sensor data only to user. In 2019, Chen et al. proposed an efficient user authentication protocol. However, Ryu et al. show that it's scheme still unstable and inefficient. It cannot resist offline password guessing attack and session key attack. In this paper, we propose an improved protocol to overcome these security weaknesses by storing secret data in device. In addition, security properties like session-key security, perfect forward secrecy, known-key security and resistance against offline password attacks are implied by our protocol.
Keywords
User Authentication Protocol; Heterogeneous; Off-line Password guessing attack; Session Key;
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