scholarly journals Physical Unclonable Function and Hashing Are All You Need to Mutually Authenticate IoT Devices

Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (16) ◽  
pp. 4361 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmed Mostafa ◽  
Suk Jin Lee ◽  
Yesem Kurt Peker
Keyword(s):  
Formal Analysis ◽  
Low Complexity ◽  
Memory Storage ◽  
Communication Overhead ◽  
Session Key ◽  
Efficient Manner ◽  
Business Environments ◽  
Authentication Mechanism ◽  
Iot Devices ◽  
Complexity Cost

Internet of Things (IoT) has become the driving force in modern day technology with an increasing and rapid urge to create an intelligent, efficient, and connected world. IoT is used in manufacturing, agriculture, transportation, education, healthcare and many other business environments as well as home automation. Authentication for IoT devices is essential because many of these devices establish communication with servers through public networks. A rigorous lightweight device authentication scheme is needed to secure its physical hardware from cloning or side-channel attacks and accommodate the limited storage and computational power of IoT devices in an efficient manner. In this paper, we introduce a lightweight mutual two-factor authentication mechanism where an IoT device and the server authenticate each other. The proposed mechanism exploits Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) and a hashing algorithm with the purpose of achieving a secure authentication and session key agreement between the IoT device and the server. We conduct a type of formal analysis to validate the protocol’s security. We also validate that the proposed authentication mechanism is secure against different types of attack scenarios and highly efficient in terms of memory storage, server capacity, and energy consumption with its low complexity cost and low communication overhead. In this sense, the proposed authentication mechanism is very appealing and suitable for resource-constrained and security-critical environments.

scholarly journals An Image Hashing-Based Authentication and Secure Group Communication Scheme for IoT-Enabled MANETs

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. 166
Author(s):  
Aiiad Albeshri
Keyword(s):  
Secure Communication ◽  
Communication Systems ◽  
Computational Cost ◽  
Memory Storage ◽  
Communication Overhead ◽  
Node Mobility ◽  
Image Hashing ◽  
Security Attacks ◽  
Neighboring Group ◽  
Authentication Mechanism

Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) play a highly significant role in the Internet of Things (IoT) for managing node mobility. MANET opens the pathway for different IoT-based communication systems with effective abilities for a variety of applications in several domains. In IoT-based systems, it provides the self-formation and self-connection of networks. A key advantage of MANETs is that any device or node can freely join or leave the network; however, this makes the networks and applications vulnerable to security attacks. Thus, authentication plays an essential role in protecting the network or system from several security attacks. Consequently, secure communication is an important prerequisite for nodes in MANETs. The main problem is that the node moving from one group to another may be attacked on the way by misleading the device to join the neighboring group. To address this, in this paper, we present an authentication mechanism based on image hashing where the network administrator allows the crosschecking of the identity image of a soldier (i.e., a node) in the joining group. We propose the node joining and node migration algorithms where authentication is involved to ensure secure identification. The simulation tool NS-2 is employed to conduct extensive simulations for extracting the results from the trace files. The results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed scheme based on the memory storage communication overhead and computational cost. In our scheme, the attack can be detected effectively and also provides a highly robust assurance.

scholarly journals EBASKET ECC Blended Authentication and Session Key Establishment Technique for IoT

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 20-28
Author(s):  
M G Padmashree ◽  
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J S Arunalatha ◽  
K R Venugopal ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Elliptic Curve ◽  
Key Management ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Public Key Cryptography ◽  
Public Key ◽  
Communication Overhead ◽  
Security Level ◽  
Session Key ◽  
Key Establishment ◽  
Iot Devices

Security is a prerequisite of each device that provides physical access to anyone and is logically expose to communication network attacks. The Internet of Things (IoT) must assure energy-saving provision due to the unique characteristics of IoT devices that comprise cost-effective, low power, and data delivery capacity. A Key-based Authentication scheme is a need without creating a bottleneck of communication for security in IoT integration. Security solutions viz., Authentication, Access control, and Key management are essential for the protection of communication in IoT applications. Public Key Cryptography (PKC) encapsulates multiple security functionalities and applications in conventional networks. The proposed Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) Blended Authentication and Session Key Establishment Technique (EBASKET), an enhanced HPAKE scheme secures the IoT device interactions using Hash and Public Key Cryptography conjoined with a Stochastic Number. EBASKET authenticates and establishes Session Key for communicating IoT Devices using ECC that enhances the security resisting Key Disclosure, Man-in-The-Middle (MiTM), Relay threats. It incorporates an Elliptic Curve of 256 bits to achieve the 128 bits security level. EBASKET accomplishes Key Establishment utilizes Nonce as the Fragmentary Key after authenticating the intercommunicating Devices. It decreases the overall delay incurred reducing the communication overhead minimizing the quantity and magnitude of the messages exchange for Authentication. A secure Key Establishment for the Session uses a Stochastic, Hashing function, and ECC. The interactions throughout the Predeploying, Authenticating, and Key Establishing process cause a delay. The performance graph depicts that Key Establishment and authenticating the IoT devices using ECC and reducing communicational cost enhance security than Enhanced, Hybrid, and Lightweight Authentication Schemes.

scholarly journals Transparent CoAP Services to IoT Endpoints through ICN Operator Networks

Sensors ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (6) ◽  
pp. 1339 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hasan Islam ◽  
Dmitrij Lagutin ◽  
Antti Ylä-Jääski ◽  
Nikos Fotiou ◽  
Andrei Gurtov
Keyword(s):  
Storage Capacity ◽  
Communication Overhead ◽  
Full Potential ◽  
Core Network ◽  
Computation Complexity ◽  
State Management ◽  
Iot Devices ◽  
Novel Applications ◽  
And Storage ◽  
The Internet Of Things

The Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) is a specialized web transfer protocol which is intended to be used for constrained networks and devices. CoAP and its extensions (e.g., CoAP observe and group communication) provide the potential for developing novel applications in the Internet-of-Things (IoT). However, a full-fledged CoAP-based application may require significant computing capability, power, and storage capacity in IoT devices. To address these challenges, we present the design, implementation, and experimentation with the CoAP handler which provides transparent CoAP services through the ICN core network. In addition, we demonstrate how the CoAP traffic over an ICN network can unleash the full potential of the CoAP, shifting both overhead and complexity from the (constrained) endpoints to the ICN network. The experiments prove that the CoAP Handler helps to decrease the required computation complexity, communication overhead, and state management of the CoAP server.

Coding Algorithms and Network Plan for Context-Aware Data Collection Based on Internet of Things in Large Marine Ships

2014 ◽  
Vol 701-702 ◽  
pp. 957-960
Author(s):  
Feng Xie
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Formal Analysis ◽  
Cluster Head ◽  
Communication Overhead ◽  
Context Aware ◽  
Sensing Data ◽  
Communication Efficiency ◽  
Data Volume ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Data Context

The equipment maintenance in large marine ships may rely on Internet of Things to provide monitoring of equipment status instantly. The data volume of sensing data is huge as the number of equipments is large. It is critical to decrease the communication overhead of uploading sensing data for efficiently and timely monitoring. In this paper, we propose several coding algorithms by using data context that is modeled by our normal forms on the base of our observations. The communication efficiency is improved, which is justified by formal analysis and rigorous proof. We also propose several network plan policies for further improvement of the communication efficiency by using data context and cluster head deployment.

Device Authentication and Data Encryption for IoT Network by Using Improved Lightweight SAFER Encryption With S-Boxes

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Hamza Sajjad Ahmad ◽  
Muhammad Junaid Arshad ◽  
Muhammad Sohail Akram
Keyword(s):  
Low Power ◽  
Secure Communication ◽  
Data Encryption ◽  
Important Task ◽  
Encryption Algorithm ◽  
Authentication Mechanism ◽  
Iot Devices ◽  
Encryption Method ◽  
Secure Authentication

To send data over the network, devices need to authenticate themselves within the network. After authentication, the device will be able to send the data in-network. After authentication, secure communication of devices is an important task that is done with an encryption method. IoT network devices have a very small circuit with low resources and low computation power. By considering low power, less memory, low computation, and all the aspect of IoT devices, an encryption technique is needed that is suitable for this type of device. As IoT networks are heterogeneous, each device has different hardware properties, and all the devices are not on one scale. To make IoT networks secure, this paper starts with the secure authentication mechanism to verify the device that wants to be a part of the network. After that, an encryption algorithm is presented that will make the communication secure. This encryption algorithm is designed by considering all the important aspects of IoT devices (low computation, low memory, and cost).

scholarly journals Resource Efficient Authentication and Session Key Establishment Procedure for Low-Resource IoT Devices

IEEE Access ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 170615-170628 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarmadullah Khan ◽  
Ahmed Ibrahim Alzahrani ◽  
Osama Alfarraj ◽  
Nasser Alalwan ◽  
Ali H. Al-Bayatti
Keyword(s):  
Session Key ◽  
Key Establishment ◽  
Low Resource ◽  
Iot Devices

scholarly journals Elliptic Curve Signcryption-Based Mutual Authentication Protocol for Smart Cards

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (22) ◽  
pp. 8291
Author(s):  
Anuj Kumar Singh ◽  
Arun Solanki ◽  
Anand Nayyar ◽  
Basit Qureshi
Keyword(s):  
Elliptic Curve ◽  
Smart Card ◽  
Mutual Authentication ◽  
Computational Cost ◽  
Authentication Protocol ◽  
Security Protocol ◽  
Smart Cards ◽  
Communication Overhead ◽  
Authentication Mechanism ◽  
Computational Overhead

In the modern computing environment, smart cards are being used extensively, which are intended to authenticate a user with the system or server. Owing to the constrictions of computational resources, smart card-based systems require an effective design and efficient security scheme. In this paper, a smart card authentication protocol based on the concept of elliptic curve signcryption has been proposed and developed, which provides security attributes, including confidentiality of messages, non-repudiation, the integrity of messages, mutual authentication, anonymity, availability, and forward security. Moreover, the analysis of security functionalities shows that the protocol developed and explained in this paper is secure from password guessing attacks, user and server impersonation, replay attacks, de-synchronization attacks, insider attacks, known key attacks, and man-in-the-middle attacks. The results have demonstrated that the proposed smart card security protocol reduces the computational overhead on a smart card by 33.3% and the communication cost of a smart card by 34.5%, in comparison to the existing efficient protocols. It can, thus, be inferred from the results that using elliptic curve signcryption in the authentication mechanism reduces the computational cost and communication overhead by a significant amount.

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