A Provably-Secure ECC-Based Authentication Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks

Junghyun Nam

doi:10.3390/s141121023

A Provably-Secure ECC-Based Authentication Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks

2014-11-06

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DOI：10.3390/s141121023

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A smart-card-based user authentication scheme for wireless sensor networks (in short, a SUA-WSN scheme) is designed to restrict access to the sensor data only to users who are in possession of both a smart card and the corresponding password. While a significant number of SUA-WSN schemes have been suggested in recent years, their intended security properties lack formal definitions and proofs in a widely-accepted model. One consequence is that SUA-WSN schemes insecure against various attacks have proliferated. In this paper, we devise a security model for the analysis of SUA-WSN schemes by extending the widely-accepted model of Bellare, Pointcheval and Rogaway (2000). Our model provides formal definitions of authenticated key exchange and user anonymity while capturing side-channel attacks, as well as other common attacks. We also propose a new SUA-WSN scheme based on elliptic curve cryptography (ECC), and prove its security properties in our extended model. To the best of our knowledge, our proposed scheme is the first SUA-WSN scheme that provably achieves both authenticated key exchange and user anonymity. Our scheme is also computationally competitive with other ECC-based (non-provably secure) schemes.

Keywords:

wireless sensor network

authentication scheme

authenticated key exchange

user anonymity

smart card

two-factor security

A Provably-Secure ECC-Based Authentication Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks

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