Paper Info
Title
Efficient and Security Enhanced Anonymous Authentication with Key Agreement Scheme in Wireless Sensor Networks.
Abstract
At present, users can utilize an authenticated key agreement protocol in a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) to securely obtain desired information, and numerous studies have investigated authentication techniques to construct efficient, robust WSNs. Chang et al. recently presented an authenticated key agreement mechanism for WSNs and claimed that their authentication mechanism can both prevent various types of attacks, as well as preserve security properties. However, we have discovered that Chang et al's method possesses some security weaknesses. First, their mechanism cannot guarantee protection against a password guessing attack, user impersonation attack or session key compromise. Second, the mechanism results in a high load on the gateway node because the gateway node should always maintain the verifier tables. Third, there is no session key verification process in the authentication phase. To this end, we describe how the previously-stated weaknesses occur and propose a security-enhanced version for WSNs. We present a detailed analysis of the security and performance of our authenticated key agreement mechanism, which not only enhances security compared to that of related schemes, but also takes efficiency into consideration.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.3390/s17030644
SENSORS
Keywords
Field
DocType
wireless sensor networks,session key agreement,off-line password guessing attack,lightweight computation,formal proof
Authentication,Password cracking,Computer security,Challenge–response authentication,Computer science,Computer network,Default gateway,Security properties,Wireless sensor network,Session key,Formal proof
Journal
Volume
Issue
Citations 
17
3.0
8
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.44
25
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jaewook Jung1328.00
Jongho Moon2262.75
Donghoon Lee3131.89
Dongho Won41262154.14