Improved handover authentication and key pre‐distribution for wireless mesh networks

Yang, Xu; Huang, Xinyi; Han, Jinguang; Su, Chunhua

doi:10.1002/cpe.3544

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“…(4) The session key is indistinguishable with a random number. (5) When A has obtained the secret key in the mobile device, the probability of A knew the password is negligible.…”

Section: Security Modelmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, limited resources (e.g. Computational ability, memory, battery capacity) and communications (e.g.Low bandwidth and security) have impeded the qualities of mobile services [1,5]. Cloud computing as a network-based infrastructure provides computing resources such as operating systems, storage, networks, hardware, databases, and even entire software applications to users as on-demand fashion [6][7][8].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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An Enhanced Privacy-Aware Authentication Scheme for Distributed Mobile Cloud Computing Services

2017

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With the fast growth of mobile services, Mobile Cloud Computing(MCC) has gained a great deal of attention from researchers in the academic and industrial field. User authentication and privacy are significant issues in MCC environment. Recently, Tsai and Lo proposed a privacy-aware authentication scheme for distributed MCC services, which claimed to support mutual authentication and user anonymity. However, Irshad et.al. pointed out this scheme cannot achieve desired security goals and improved it. Unfortunately, this paper shall show that security features of Irshad et.al.'s scheme are achieved at the price of multiple time-consuming operations, such as three bilinear pairing operations, one map-to-point hash function operation, etc. Besides, it still suffers from two minor design flaws, including incapability of achieving three-factor security and no user revocation and re-registration. To address these issues, an enhanced and provably secure authentication scheme for distributed MCC services will be designed in this work. The proposed scheme can meet all desirable security requirements and is able to resist against various kinds of attacks. Moreover, compared with previously proposed schemes, the proposed scheme provides more security features while achieving lower computation and communication costs.

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“…(4) The session key is indistinguishable with a random number. (5) When A has obtained the secret key in the mobile device, the probability of A knew the password is negligible.…”

Section: Security Modelmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

An Enhanced Privacy-Aware Authentication Scheme for Distributed Mobile Cloud Computing Services

2017

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“…In this section, we list the common security requirements and threats [ 2 , 9 , 11 – 17 , 22 , 28 , 30 – 46 , 44 – 46 ], along with the proof that the proposed protocol can satisfy those requirements and withstand those threats. We shall compare with some similar protocols including Li et al’s scheme [ 22 ] and Yang et al’s scheme [ 45 ]. Yang et al’s scheme is a follow-up study of Li et al’s scheme.…”

Section: Security Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In this section, we shall analyze the performance of the proposed handover authentication scheme by showing how it compares with some similar protocols including EAP-TLS [ 47 ], Li et al’s scheme [ 22 ], and Yang et al’s scheme [ 45 ]. EAP-TLS is a popular authentication protocol for IEEE 802.11-based wireless networks and represents the multi-hop handover authentication approach.…”

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A New Ticket-Based Authentication Mechanism for Fast Handover in Mesh Network

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Due to the ever-growing popularity mobile devices of various kinds have received worldwide, the demands on large-scale wireless network infrastructure development and enhancement have been rapidly swelling in recent years. A mobile device holder can get online at a wireless network access point, which covers a limited area. When the client leaves the access point, there will be a temporary disconnection until he/she enters the coverage of another access point. Even when the coverages of two neighboring access points overlap, there is still work to do to make the wireless connection smoothly continue. The action of one wireless network access point passing a client to another access point is referred to as the handover. During handover, for security concerns, the client and the new access point should perform mutual authentication before any Internet access service is practically gained/provided. If the handover protocol is inefficient, in some cases discontinued Internet service will happen. In 2013, Li et al. proposed a fast handover authentication mechanism for wireless mesh network (WMN) based on tickets. Unfortunately, Li et al.’s work came with some weaknesses. For one thing, some sensitive information such as the time and date of expiration is sent in plaintext, which increases security risks. For another, Li et al.’s protocol includes the use of high-quality tamper-proof devices (TPDs), and this unreasonably high equipment requirement limits its applicability. In this paper, we shall propose a new efficient handover authentication mechanism. The new mechanism offers a higher level of security on a more scalable ground with the client’s privacy better preserved. The results of our performance analysis suggest that our new mechanism is superior to some similar mechanisms in terms of authentication delay.

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“…Yang et al . provide a new design on handover authentication in the wireless mesh network through an improved key predistribution.…”

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Security and privacy in big data

Xiang

Kutylowsky

2016

Concurrency and Computation

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The goal of this special issue is to collate a selection of representative research articles that were primarily presented at the 8th International Conference on Network and System Security (NSS 2014). This annual conference brings together researchers and practitioners in the world from both academia and industry who are working on network and system security, in order to foster interaction between researchers and developers, promote an exchange of ideas, discuss future collaborations, and develop new research directions.The recent advances in technology result in an explosive growth of data available. Sources such as sensors, social networks, Internet of Things, and the Internet are generating 2.5 quintillion bytes of data every day. With the vision of extracting useful knowledge and the promise of data-driven decisionmaking, big data have been emerging as a hot topic in the research community. While the benefits of big data are clear, it also introduces technical difficulties because of its scale, complexity, and heterogeneity. This special issue presents many examples of how researchers, scholars, vendors, and practitioners are collaborating to address security and privacy research challenges.The scope of this special issue is broad and is representative of the multi-disciplinary nature of security and privacy. In addition to submissions that deal with security challenges, privacy issues, theoretical analysis, algorithms, protocols, and practical experience in the context of big data, this issue also includes articles that address practical challenges with handling large-scale data at the infrastructure level.Addressing the privacy and security concerns in big data is a central topic of this issue. Chen et al. To protect real-world data across various platforms, key management is an essential issue. Qin et al. [5] propose two lightweight group key distribution schemes to solve the problem of efficient subgroup and intergroup communication in vehicular ad hoc networks. Biometrics has been gaining popularity, due to the increasing concerns of identity fraud and the need for identity recognition. Zhou et al. [6] improve the performance of fingerprint indexing through the combination of local and global reconstructed features.In the era of big data, resources are located in a heterogeneous network environment. Fang et al.[7] address the problem of secure routing and resource allocation in cooperative cognitive radio networks based on game theory. Yang et al.[8] provide a new design on handover authentication in the wireless mesh network through an improved key predistribution.We encourage the readers to review [9,10] to gain insight into the latest innovations in the platform in the context of big data, such as fog computing [9], a new paradigm that extends cloud computing and services to the edge of the network, and private comparison in quantum cloud computing [10].We are grateful for the time and effort of the international reviewers. We deeply thank Professor Geoffrey C. Fox, the editor-in-chief, for pr...

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Improved handover authentication and key pre‐distribution for wireless mesh networks

Cited by 13 publications

References 22 publications

An Enhanced Privacy-Aware Authentication Scheme for Distributed Mobile Cloud Computing Services

An Enhanced Privacy-Aware Authentication Scheme for Distributed Mobile Cloud Computing Services

A New Ticket-Based Authentication Mechanism for Fast Handover in Mesh Network

Security and privacy in big data

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