A lightweight mutual authentication protocol based on elliptic curve cryptography for IoT devices. (2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Tewari, Aakanksha; Gupta, B.B.
• Is Part Of: International journal of advanced intelligence paradigms. Volume 9:Number 2/3(2017)
• Page Start: 111
• Page End: 121
• Publication Date: 2017
• Subjects: mutual authentication -- confidentiality -- elliptic curve cryptography -- ECC -- availability -- anonymity -- lightweight authentication protocol -- internet of things -- IoT devices -- communication overhead -- attack resistance -- network security; Artificial intelligence -- Periodicals; Machine theory -- Periodicals; Fuzzy logic -- Periodicals; 006.305
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1755-0386

Abstract

The Internet-of-Things (IoT) is an evolving architecture which connects multiple devices to internet for communication or receiving updates from a cloud or a server. In future, the number of these connected devices will increase immensely making them an indistinguishable part of our daily lives. However, these devices in spite of making our lives more comfortable are also making our personal information more at risk. Therefore, security of these devices is also a major concern for us. In this paper, we propose a mutual authentication mechanism between an IoT device and the server based on elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) which gives better solution in terms of communication overhead and attack resistance. Our proposed solution also fulfils the essential requirements of security. The security and performance analysis also verifies the strength of our protocol.