Paper Info
Title
Security analysis of 'two-factor user authentication in wireless sensor networks'
Abstract
Authenticating remote users in wireless sensor networks (WSN) is an important security issue due to their un-attended and hostile deployments. Usually, sensor nodes are equipped with limited computing power, storage, and communication module, thus authenticating remote users in such resource-constrained environment is a critical security concern. Recently, M.L Das proposed a two-factor user authentication scheme in WSN and claimed that his scheme is secure against different kind of attacks. However, in this paper, we prove that M.L Das-scheme has some critical security pitfalls and is not recommended for real application. We point out that in his scheme: users cannot change/update their passwords, it does not provide mutual authentication between gateway node and sensor node, and is vulnerable to gateway node bypassing attack and privileged-insider attack.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1007/978-3-642-13577-4_5
AST/UCMA/ISA/ACN
Keywords
Field
DocType
gateway node,two-factor user authentication scheme,remote user,sensor node,security analysis,m.l das-scheme,wireless sensor network,m.l das,critical security pitfall,important security issue,critical security concern
Sensor node,Mutual authentication,Key distribution in wireless sensor networks,Authentication,Challenge–response authentication,Computer security,Computer network,Password,Engineering,Network Access Control,Wireless sensor network
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
6059
0302-9743
3-642-13576-5
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.43
15
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Muhammad Khurram Khan13538204.81
Khaled Alghathbar249832.54