Security Improvement on Biometric Based Authentication Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks Using Fuzzy Extraction. (5th January 2016)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Security Improvement on Biometric Based Authentication Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks Using Fuzzy Extraction. (5th January 2016)
- Main Title:
- Security Improvement on Biometric Based Authentication Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks Using Fuzzy Extraction
- Authors:
- Choi, Younsung
Lee, Youngsook
Won, Dongho - Other Names:
- Hu Hongxin Academic Editor.
- Abstract:
- Abstract : Wireless sensor networks are used to monitor physical or environmental conditions. However, authenticating a user or sensor in wireless sensor networks is more difficult than in traditional networks owing to sensor network characteristics such as unreliable communication networks, resource limitation, and unattended operation. As a result, various authentication schemes have been proposed to provide secure and efficient communication. He et al. suggested a robust biometrics-based user authentication scheme, but Yoon and Kim indicated that their scheme had several security vulnerabilities. The latter then proposed an advanced biometrics-based user authentication scheme; in this paper, we analyze this advanced scheme and perform a cryptanalysis. Our analysis shows that Yoon and Kim's scheme has various security weaknesses such as a biometric recognition error, a user verification problem, lack of anonymity and perfect forward secrecy, session key exposure by the gateway node, vulnerability to denial of service attacks, and a revocation problem. Therefore, we suggest countermeasures that can be implemented to solve these problems and then propose a security-enhanced biometrics-based user authentication scheme using fuzzy extraction that conforms to the proposed countermeasures. Finally, we conduct a security analysis for the proposed biometrics-based user authentication scheme.
- Is Part Of:
- International journal of distributed sensor networks. (2016)
- Journal:
- International journal of distributed sensor networks
- Issue:
- (2016)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 2016, Issue 2016 (2016)
- Year:
- 2016
- Volume:
- 2016
- Issue:
- 2016
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2016-2016-2016-0000
- Page Start:
- Page End:
- Publication Date:
- 2016-01-05
- Subjects:
- Sensor networks -- Periodicals
Intelligent agents (Computer software) -- Periodicals
Multisensor data fusion -- Periodicals
681.2 - Journal URLs:
- http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t714578688~db=all ↗
http://www.metapress.com/openurl.asp?genre=journal&issn=1550-1329 ↗
http://dsn.sagepub.com/ ↗
http://www.tandfonline.com/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1155/2016/8572410 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 1550-1329
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- Legaldeposit
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