TY - GEN
T1 - Cryptanalysis of improved and provably secure three-factor user authentication scheme for wireless sensor networks
AU - Ryu, Jihyeon
AU - Song, Taeui
AU - Moon, Jongho
AU - Kim, Hyoungshick
AU - Won, Dongho
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019.
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Wireless sensor networks are applied in various areas like smart grid, environmental monitoring, health care, and security and surveillance. It applies to many fields, but as the utilization is higher, security becomes more important. Recently, the authentication scheme for the environment of wireless sensor network has also been studied. Wu et al. has announced a three-factor user authentication scheme claiming to be resistant to different types of attacks and maintain various security attributes. However, their proposal has several fatal vulnerabilities. First, it is vulnerable to the outsider attack. Second, it is exposed to user impersonation attack. Third, it does not satisfy user anonymity. Therefore, in this paper, we describe these vulnerabilities and prove Wu et al.’s scheme is unsafe.
AB - Wireless sensor networks are applied in various areas like smart grid, environmental monitoring, health care, and security and surveillance. It applies to many fields, but as the utilization is higher, security becomes more important. Recently, the authentication scheme for the environment of wireless sensor network has also been studied. Wu et al. has announced a three-factor user authentication scheme claiming to be resistant to different types of attacks and maintain various security attributes. However, their proposal has several fatal vulnerabilities. First, it is vulnerable to the outsider attack. Second, it is exposed to user impersonation attack. Third, it does not satisfy user anonymity. Therefore, in this paper, we describe these vulnerabilities and prove Wu et al.’s scheme is unsafe.
KW - Biometric
KW - Elliptic curve cryptosystem
KW - Remote user authentication
KW - Wireless sensor Network
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85053280932
U2 - 10.1007/978-981-13-2622-6_5
DO - 10.1007/978-981-13-2622-6_5
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85053280932
SN - 9789811326219
T3 - Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering
SP - 49
EP - 58
BT - Computational Science and Technology - 5th ICCST 2018
A2 - Alfred, Rayner
A2 - Ibrahim, Ag Asri Ag
A2 - Lim, Yuto
A2 - Anthony, Patricia
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 5th International Conference on Computational Science and Technology, ICCST 2018
Y2 - 29 August 2018 through 30 August 2018
ER -