A User Authentication Scheme Based on Elliptic Curves Cryptography for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks

The feature of non-infrastructure support in a wireless ad hoc network (WANET) makes it suffer from various attacks. Moreover, user authentication is the first safety barrier in a network. A mutual trust is achieved by a protocol which enables communicating parties to authenticate each other at the same time and to exchange session keys. For the resource-constrained WANET, an efficient and lightweight user authentication scheme is necessary. In this paper, we propose a user authentication scheme based on the self-certified public key system and elliptic curves cryptography for a WANET. Using the proposed scheme, an efficient two-way user authentication and secure session key agreement can be achieved. Security analysis shows that our proposed scheme is resilient to common known attacks. In addition, the performance analysis shows that our proposed scheme performs similar or better compared with some existing user authentication schemes.

• Publication year

  2015

• Venue

  Italian National Conference on Sensors

• Publication date

  2015-07-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Computer Science, Engineering

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.3390/s150717057PMID 26184224PMCID 4541922
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

• Source metadata

  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

• The proposed scheme performs similar or better compared with some existing user authentication schemes.

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• The proposed scheme is resilient to common known attacks in the WANET setting.

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• An efficient two-way user authentication and secure session key agreement can be achieved using the proposed scheme based on the self-certified public key system and elliptic curve cryptography.

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• elliptic curve cryptography

  method

  A public-key cryptographic approach based on the algebraic structure of elliptic curves, leveraged here for efficient security in resource-constrained environments.

  Aliases: ECC

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• self-certified public key system

  method

  A public key infrastructure in which the public key does not require a separate certificate, used here as a building block for lightweight authentication.

  Aliases: self-certified public key

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• session key agreement

  protocol step

  A process by which communicating parties establish a shared secret session key during authentication.

  Aliases: key agreement

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• user authentication scheme

  method

  A protocol proposed for authenticating users and establishing session keys in wireless ad hoc networks, combining self-certified public keys with elliptic curve cryptography.

  Aliases: authentication scheme

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• wireless ad hoc network

  system

  A decentralized wireless network without fixed infrastructure, which is the target deployment environment for the proposed authentication scheme.

  Aliases: WANET

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