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A Robust and Anonymous Three-Factor Authentication Scheme Based ECC for Smart Home Environments

Authors :
Xiong Wang
Yuan Teng
Yaping Chi
Hongbo Hu
Source :
Symmetry, Vol 14, Iss 11, p 2394 (2022)
Publication Year :
2022
Publisher :
MDPI AG, 2022.

Abstract

With the rapid development of the Internet of Things (IoT) industry, the smart home is fully integrated with people’s shelter and transportation, which facilitates people’s daily life. A smart home without a security authentication mechanism will inevitably cause a series of security threats. This is essentially a problem of symmetry model worth solving. In fact, researchers have designed various authentication schemes to verify the identity of users and to ensure smart devices can be legally accessed through authorization in the smart home. In 2021, Yu proposed a three-factor anonymous authentication scheme for smart homes using lightweight symmetric encryption primitives and stated that their scheme is resistant to various known security attacks. However, after careful analysis, we found that Yu’s scheme needs further improvement in node capture attack and offline password guessing attack and that forward security cannot be guaranteed. Therefore, we first design a robust three-factor anonymous authentication scheme for smart homes based on asymmetric encryption Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC). Then, we perform formal and informal security analysis in which the formal analysis tools include Burrows-Abadi-Needham (BAN) logic and Scyther simulation tool to prove that the proposed scheme can achieve user anonymity, untraceability, and session key forward security. Meanwhile, mutual authentication is performed, and the scheme is resistant to all known attacks described in this article. Finally, a performance comparison is made in terms of efficiency, which shows that our scheme can have certain advantages with those newly designed schemes, achieve a delicate balance in performance and safety, and is more practical for the real smart home environment.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
20738994
Volume :
14
Issue :
11
Database :
Directory of Open Access Journals
Journal :
Symmetry
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
edsdoj.2a7075699c31402ca33cc05fd0affbc0
Document Type :
article
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.3390/sym14112394