SKIA-SH: A Symmetric Key-Based Improved Lightweight Authentication Scheme for Smart Homes

Abstract

Being one of the finest applications of the IoT, smart homes (SHs) with an aim to improve quality of life are taking over the traditional lifestyles. The entities within a SH communicate with each other and with the environment including the users to transform daily life seamlessly enjoyable and easy. However, owing to the public communication infrastructure, the advantages of SH are subject to security and privacy issues. Recently, Yu et al. presented a privacy and security solution for SH environment. The scheme of Yu et al. is based on lightweight symmetric key functions. Although the scheme of Yu et al. exhibits the lightweight property, it is proven in this paper that their scheme cannot provide mutual authentication due to a crucial design fault. An improved scheme using symmetric key functions for SH (SKIA-SH) is proposed in this paper. The security of the proposed scheme is furnished through formal BAN logic followed by brief discussion on security attribute provision of the proposed SKIA-SH. The comparisons show that the proposed SKIA-SH provides the required security on the cost of slight increase in computation and communication costs. The simulation results show that the SKIA-SH completes an authentication round by exchanging 216 bytes in just 5.34 ms.

Robust and Lightweight Remote User Authentication Mechanism for Next-Generation IoT-Based Smart Home

“…Outcomes display that our suggested scheme including the key exchange process consumed less estimated communication cost as compared to other existing schemes. Our proposed scheme reduced communication costs by up to 25.28 % compared to [33].…”

“…Similarly, in [29]- [33], researchers proposed authentication schemes for IoT-based smart home environments. The proposed schemes adopt very complex procedures for key exchange and authentication processes.…”

“…Total Computation Cost Estimated Time (ms) [5] 18T H + 9T ⊕ + 56T ∥ + 3Tran 0.1352 [22] 16T H + 21T ⊕ + 70T ∥ + 4Tran + 4Texp 1.4232 [26] 22T H + 18T ⊕ + 47T ∥ + 1Tran 0.1456 [28] 42T H + 25T ⊕ + 105T ∥ + 3Tran 0.2860 [29] 20T H + 29T ⊕ + 27T ∥ + 3Tran + 3T E/D 0.2065 [30] 24T H + 16T ⊕ + 73T ∥ + 4Tran 0.1812 [32] 10T H + 12T ⊕ + 47T ∥ + 3Tran 0.0912 [33] 29T (768 + 320 + 320 + 320) = 1728 4 [26] (1056 + 640 + 384 + 544) = 2624 4 [28] (800 + 640 + 640 + 448 + 448+ 320) = 3296 6 [29] (640 + 640 + 320 + 320 + 160) = 2080 5 [30] (544 + 320 + 448 + 576) = 1888 4 [32] (800 + 416 + 416 + 672) = 2304 4 [33] (608 + 320 + 320 + 320) = 1568 4…”

Toward a Secure Smart-Home IoT Access Control Scheme Based on Home Registration Approach

“…Zou et al [18] devised a more secure scheme. Yu et al [17] devised a three factor AKA scheme, but Alzahrani et al [45] found that Yu et al's scheme [17] cannot provide mutual authentication. Piraytesh et al [21] proposed a hyperelliptic curve cryptosystem-based AKA scheme in smart home, which they claim ensures good performance.…”

Toward Smart Home Authentication Using PUF and Edge-Computing Paradigm

“…Unfortunately, Yu et al [ 18 ] found that the protocol of Kaur and Kumar [ 38 ] could not resist impersonation attacks and session key disclosure attacks and proposed a secure AKA protocol based on three factors. However, Alzahrani et al [ 39 ] discovered that Yu et al’s protocol [ 18 ] was unable to achieve mutual authentication. Banerjee et al [ 40 ] found that Shuai et al’s protocol [ 37 ] could not resist stolen smart card attacks and user impersonation attacks and then proposed an efficient anonymous authentication protocol.…”