Improving the Authentication Scheme and Access Control Protocol for VANETs

Entropy

Wei-Chen Wu¹  Yi-Ming Chen² 

[1] Computer Center, Hsin Sheng Junior College of Medical Care and Management, No. 418, Kaoping Village, Lungtan Township, Taoyuan County 32544, Taiwan;Department of Information Management, National Central University, No. 300, Jhongda Rd., Jhongli City, Taoyuan County 32001, Taiwan;

关键词: vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs);    cryptanalysis;    privacy;    authentication;    access control;   

DOI  :  10.3390/e16116152

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Privacy and security are very important in vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs). VANETs are negatively affected by any malicious user’s behaviors, such as bogus information and replay attacks on the disseminated messages. Among various security threats, privacy preservation is one of the new challenges of protecting users’ private information. Existing authentication protocols to secure VANETs raise challenges, such as certificate distribution and reduction of the strong reliance on tamper-proof devices. In 2011, Yeh et al. proposed a PAACP: a portable privacy-preserving authentication and access control protocol in vehicular ad hoc networks. However, PAACP in the authorization phase is breakable and cannot maintain privacy in VANETs. In this paper, we present a cryptanalysis of an attachable blind signature and demonstrate that the PAACP’s authorized credential (AC) is not secure and private, even if the AC is secretly stored in a tamper-proof device. An eavesdropper can construct an AC from an intercepted blind document. Any eavesdropper can determine who has which access privileges to access which service. For this reason, this paper copes with these challenges and proposes an efficient scheme. We conclude that an improving authentication scheme and access control protocol for VANETs not only resolves the problems that have appeared, but also is more secure and efficient.

【 授权许可】

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