An Efficient, Anonymous and Robust Authentication Scheme for Smart Home Environments

Sensors

AshokKumar Das¹  Samiran Chattopadhyay²  Vanga Odelu³  Soumya Banerjee⁴  Youngho Park⁴ 

[1] Science, Pilani Hyderabad Campus, Hyderabad 500 078, India;Center for Security, Theory and Algorithmic Research, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad 500 032, India;;Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, Birla Institute of Technology &Department of Information Technology, Jadavpur University, Salt Lake City, Kolkata 700 098, India;

关键词: internet of things (iot);    smart homes;    anonymous authentication;    session key agreement;    security;    automated validation of internet security protocols and applications (avispa);   

DOI  :  10.3390/s20041215

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

In recent years, the Internet of Things (IoT) has exploded in popularity. The smart home, as an important facet of IoT, has gained its focus for smart intelligent systems. As users communicate with smart devices over an insecure communication medium, the sensitive information exchanged among them becomes vulnerable to an adversary. Thus, there is a great thrust in developing an anonymous authentication scheme to provide secure communication for smart home environments. Most recently, an anonymous authentication scheme for smart home environments with provable security has been proposed in the literature. In this paper, we analyze the recent scheme to highlight its several vulnerabilities. We then address the security drawbacks and present a more secure and robust authentication scheme that overcomes the drawbacks found in the analyzed scheme, while incorporating its advantages too. Finally, through a detailed comparative study, we demonstrate that the proposed scheme provides significantly better security and more functionality features with comparable communication and computational overheads with similar schemes.

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