Car manufacturers aim to enhance the use of two-factor authentication (2FA) to protect keyless entry systems in contemporary cars. Despite providing significant ease for users, keyless entry systems have become more s...Car manufacturers aim to enhance the use of two-factor authentication (2FA) to protect keyless entry systems in contemporary cars. Despite providing significant ease for users, keyless entry systems have become more susceptible to appealing attacks like relay attacks and critical fob hacking. These weaknesses present considerable security threats, resulting in unauthorized entry and car theft. The suggested approach combines a conventional keyless entry feature with an extra security measure. Implementing multi-factor authentication significantly improves the security of systems that allow keyless entry by reducing the likelihood of unauthorized access. Research shows that the benefits of using two-factor authentication, such as a substantial increase in security, far outweigh any minor drawbacks.展开更多
The rise of the digital economy and the comfort of accessing by way of user mobile devices expedite human endeavors in financial transactions over the Virtual Private Network(VPN)backbone.This prominent application of...The rise of the digital economy and the comfort of accessing by way of user mobile devices expedite human endeavors in financial transactions over the Virtual Private Network(VPN)backbone.This prominent application of VPN evades the hurdles involved in physical money exchange.The VPN acts as a gateway for the authorized user in accessing the banking server to provide mutual authentication between the user and the server.The security in the cloud authentication server remains vulnerable to the results of threat in JP Morgan Data breach in 2014,Capital One Data Breach in 2019,and manymore cloud server attacks over and over again.These attacks necessitate the demand for a strong framework for authentication to secure from any class of threat.This research paper,propose a framework with a base of EllipticalCurve Cryptography(ECC)to performsecure financial transactions throughVirtual PrivateNetwork(VPN)by implementing strongMulti-Factor Authentication(MFA)using authentication credentials and biometric identity.The research results prove that the proposed model is to be an ideal scheme for real-time implementation.The security analysis reports that the proposed model exhibits high level of security with a minimal response time of 12 s on an average of 1000 users.展开更多
Multi-factor Authentication(MFA)often referred to as Two-factor Authentication(2FA),which is a subset of MFA,is the practice of implementing additional security methods on top of a standard username and password...Multi-factor Authentication(MFA)often referred to as Two-factor Authentication(2FA),which is a subset of MFA,is the practice of implementing additional security methods on top of a standard username and password to help authenticate the identity of a user and increase the security of data.This chapter will investigate the problem with username and password logins,the different types of authentication,current best practice for multi-factor authentication and interpretations about how the technology will grow in the upcoming years.展开更多
Cloud-based SDN(Software Defined Network)integration offers new kinds of agility,flexibility,automation,and speed in the network.Enterprises and Cloud providers both leverage the benefits as networks can be configured...Cloud-based SDN(Software Defined Network)integration offers new kinds of agility,flexibility,automation,and speed in the network.Enterprises and Cloud providers both leverage the benefits as networks can be configured and optimized based on the application requirement.The integration of cloud and SDN paradigms has played an indispensable role in improving ubiquitous health care services.It has improved the real-time monitoring of patients by medical practitioners.Patients’data get stored at the central server on the cloud from where it is available to medical practitioners in no time.The centralisation of data on the server makes it more vulnerable to malicious attacks and causes a major threat to patients’privacy.In recent days,several schemes have been proposed to ensure the safety of patients’data.But most of the techniques still lack the practical implementation and safety of data.In this paper,a secure multi-factor authentication protocol using a hash function has been proposed.BAN(Body Area Network)logic has been used to formally analyse the proposed scheme and ensure that no unauthenticated user can steal sensitivepatient information.Security Protocol Animator(SPAN)–Automated Validation of Internet Security Protocols and Applications(AVISPA)tool has been used for simulation.The results prove that the proposed scheme ensures secure access to the database in terms of spoofing and identification.Performance comparisons of the proposed scheme with other related historical schemes regarding time complexity,computation cost which accounts to only 423 ms in proposed,and security parameters such as identification and spoofing prove its efficiency.展开更多
Most network service providers like MTN Nigeria, currently use two-factor authentication for their 4G wireless networks. This exposes the network subscribers to identify theft and users data to security threats like s...Most network service providers like MTN Nigeria, currently use two-factor authentication for their 4G wireless networks. This exposes the network subscribers to identify theft and users data to security threats like snooping, sniffing, spoofing and phishing. There is need to curb these problems with the use of an enhanced multi-factor authentication approach. The objective of this work is to create a multi-factor authentication software for a 4G wireless network. Multi-factor authentication involves user’s knowledge factor, user’s possession factor and user’s inherence factor;that is who the user is to be presented before system access can be granted. The research methodologies used for this work include Structured System Analysis and Design Methodology, SSADM and Prototyping. The result of this work will be a Multi-factor authentications software. This software was designed with programming languages like ASP. NET, C# and Microsoft SQL Server for the database.展开更多
User’s data is considered as a vital asset of several organizations.Migrating data to the cloud computing is not an easy decision for any organization due to the privacy and security concerns.Service providers must e...User’s data is considered as a vital asset of several organizations.Migrating data to the cloud computing is not an easy decision for any organization due to the privacy and security concerns.Service providers must ensure that both data and applications that will be stored on the cloud should be protected in a secure environment.The data stored on the public cloud will be vulnerable to outside and inside attacks.This paper provides interactive multi-layer authentication frameworks for securing user identities on the cloud.Different access control policies are applied for verifying users on the cloud.A security mechanism is applied to the cloud application that includes user registration,granting user privileges,and generating user authentication factor.An intrusion detection system is embedded to the security mechanism to detect malicious users.The multi factor authentication,intrusion detection,and access control techniques can be used for ensuring the identity of the user.Finally,encryption techniques are used for protecting the data from being disclosed.Experimental results are carried out to verify the accuracy and efficiency of the proposed frameworks and mechanism.The results recorded high detection rate with low false positive alarms.展开更多
The ubiquitous adoption of mobile devices as essential platforms for sensitive data transmission has heightened the demand for secure client-server communication.Although various authentication and key agreement proto...The ubiquitous adoption of mobile devices as essential platforms for sensitive data transmission has heightened the demand for secure client-server communication.Although various authentication and key agreement protocols have been developed,current approaches are constrained by homogeneous cryptosystem frameworks,namely public key infrastructure(PKI),identity-based cryptography(IBC),or certificateless cryptography(CLC),each presenting limitations in client-server architectures.Specifically,PKI incurs certificate management overhead,IBC introduces key escrow risks,and CLC encounters cross-system interoperability challenges.To overcome these shortcomings,this study introduces a heterogeneous signcryption-based authentication and key agreement protocol that synergistically integrates IBC for client operations(eliminating PKI’s certificate dependency)with CLC for server implementation(mitigating IBC’s key escrow issue while preserving efficiency).Rigorous security analysis under the mBR(modified Bellare-Rogaway)model confirms the protocol’s resistance to adaptive chosen-ciphertext attacks.Quantitative comparisons demonstrate that the proposed protocol achieves 10.08%–71.34%lower communication overhead than existing schemes across multiple security levels(80-,112-,and 128-bit)compared to existing protocols.展开更多
The satellite-based augmentation system(SBAS)provides differential and integrity augmentation services for life safety fields of aviation and navigation.However,the signal structure of SBAS is public,which incurs a ri...The satellite-based augmentation system(SBAS)provides differential and integrity augmentation services for life safety fields of aviation and navigation.However,the signal structure of SBAS is public,which incurs a risk of spoofing attacks.To improve the anti-spoofing capability of the SBAS,European Union and the United States conduct research on navigation message authentication,and promote the standardization of SBAS message authentication.For the development of Beidou satellite-based augmentation system(BDSBAS),this paper proposes navigation message authentication based on the Chinese commercial cryptographic standards.Firstly,this paper expounds the architecture and principles of the SBAS message authentication,and then carries out the design of timed efficient streaming losstolerant authentication scheme(TESLA)and elliptic curve digital signature algorithm(ECDSA)authentication schemes based on Chinese commercial cryptographic standards,message arrangement and the design of over-the-air rekeying(OTAR)message.Finally,this paper conducts a theoretical analysis of the time between authentications(TBA)and maximum authentication latency(MAL)for L5 TESLA-I and L5 ECDSA-Q,and further simulates the reception time of OTAR message,TBA and MAL from the aspects of OTAR message weight and demodulation error rate.The simulation results can provide theoretical supports for the standardization of BDSBAS message authentication.展开更多
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles(UAVs)in Flying Ad-Hoc Networks(FANETs)are widely used in both civilian and military fields,but they face severe security,trust,and privacy vulnerabilities due to their high mobility,dynamic to...Unmanned Aerial Vehicles(UAVs)in Flying Ad-Hoc Networks(FANETs)are widely used in both civilian and military fields,but they face severe security,trust,and privacy vulnerabilities due to their high mobility,dynamic topology,and open wireless channels.Existing security protocols for Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks(MANETs)cannot be directly applied to FANETs,as FANETs require lightweight,high real-time performance,and strong anonymity.The current FANETs security protocol cannot simultaneously meet the requirements of strong anonymity,high security,and low overhead in high dynamic and resource-constrained scenarios.To address these challenges,this paper proposes an Anonymous Authentication and Key Exchange Protocol(AAKE-OWA)for UAVs in FANETs based on OneWay Accumulators(OWA).During the UAV registration phase,the Key Management Center(KMC)generates an identity ticket for each UAV using OWA and transmits it securely to the UAV’s on-board tamper-proof module.In the key exchange phase,UAVs generate temporary authentication tickets with random numbers and compute the same session key leveraging the quasi-commutativity of OWA.For mutual anonymous authentication,UAVs encrypt random numbers with the session key and verify identities by comparing computed values with authentication values.Formal analysis using the Scyther tool confirms that the protocol resists identity spoofing,man-in-the-middle,and replay attacks.Through Burrows Abadi Needham(BAN)logic proof,it achieves mutual anonymity,prevents simulation and physical capture attacks,and ensures secure connectivity of 1.Experimental comparisons with existing protocols prove that the AAKE-OWA protocol has lower computational overhead,communication overhead,and storage overhead,making it more suitable for resource-constrained FANET scenarios.Performance comparison experiments show that,compared with other schemes,this scheme only requires 8 one-way accumulator operations and 4 symmetric encryption/decryption operations,with a total computational overhead as low as 2.3504 ms,a communication overhead of merely 1216 bits,and a storage overhead of 768 bits.We have achieved a reduction in computational costs from 6.3%to 90.3%,communication costs from 5.0%to 69.1%,and overall storage costs from 33%to 68%compared to existing solutions.It can meet the performance requirements of lightweight,real-time,and anonymity for unmanned aerial vehicles(UAVs)networks.展开更多
This work evaluates an architecture for decentralized authentication of Internet of Things(IoT)devices in Low Earth Orbit(LEO)satellite networks using IOTA Identity technology.To the best of our knowledge,it is the fi...This work evaluates an architecture for decentralized authentication of Internet of Things(IoT)devices in Low Earth Orbit(LEO)satellite networks using IOTA Identity technology.To the best of our knowledge,it is the first proposal to integrate IOTA’s Directed Acyclic Graph(DAG)-based identity framework into satellite IoT environments,enabling lightweight and distributed authentication under intermittent connectivity.The system leverages Decentralized Identifiers(DIDs)and Verifiable Credentials(VCs)over the Tangle,eliminating the need for mining and sequential blocks.An identity management workflow is implemented that supports the creation,validation,deactivation,and reactivation of IoT devices,and is experimentally validated on the Shimmer Testnet.Three metrics are defined and measured:resolution time,deactivation time,and reactivation time.To improve robustness,an algorithmic optimization is introduced that minimizes communication overhead and reduces latency during deactivation.The experimental results are compared with orbital simulations of satellite revisit times to assess operational feasibility.Unlike blockchain-based approaches,which typically suffer from high confirmation delays and scalability constraints,the proposed DAG architecture provides fast,cost-free operations suitable for resource-constrained IoT devices.The results show that authentication can be efficiently performed within satellite connectivity windows,positioning IOTA Identity as a viable solution for secure and scalable IoT authentication in LEO satellite networks.展开更多
Cyber-criminals target smart connected devices for spyware distribution and security breaches,but existing Internet of Things(IoT)security standards are insufficient.Major IoT industry players prioritize market share ...Cyber-criminals target smart connected devices for spyware distribution and security breaches,but existing Internet of Things(IoT)security standards are insufficient.Major IoT industry players prioritize market share over security,leading to insecure smart products.Traditional host-based protection solutions are less effective due to limited resources.Overcoming these challenges and enhancing the security of IoT Devices requires a security design at the network level that uses lightweight cryptographic parameters.In order to handle control,administration,and security concerns in traditional networking,the Gateway Node offers a contemporary networking architecture.By managing all network-level computations and complexity,the Gateway Node relieves IoT devices of these responsibilities.In this study,we introduce a novel privacy-preserving security architecture for gateway-node smart homes.Subsequently,we develop Smart Homes,An Efficient,Anonymous,and Robust Authentication Scheme(EARAS)based on the foundational principles of this security architecture.Furthermore,we formally examine the security characteristics of our suggested protocol that makes use of methodology such as ProVerif,supplemented by an informal analysis of security.Lastly,we conduct performance evaluations and comparative analyses to assess the efficacy of our scheme.Performance analysis shows that EARAS achieves up to 30%to 54%more efficient than most protocols and lower computation cost compared to Banerjee et al.’s scheme,and significantly reduces communication overhead compared to other recent protocols,while ensuring comprehensive security.Our objective is to provide robust security measures for smart homes while addressing resource constraints and preserving user privacy.展开更多
To ensure the access security of 6G,physical-layer authentication(PLA)leverages the randomness and space-time-frequency uniqueness of the channel to provide unique identity signatures for transmitters.Furthermore,the ...To ensure the access security of 6G,physical-layer authentication(PLA)leverages the randomness and space-time-frequency uniqueness of the channel to provide unique identity signatures for transmitters.Furthermore,the introduction of artificial intelligence(AI)facilitates the learning of the distribution characteristics of channel fingerprints,effectively addressing the uncertainties and unknown dynamic challenges in wireless link modeling.This paper reviews representative AI-enabled PLA schemes and proposes a graph neural network(GNN)-based PLA approach in response to the challenges existing methods face in identifying mobile users.Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms six baseline schemes in terms of authentication accuracy.Furthermore,this paper outlines the future development directions of PLA.展开更多
With the rapid development and widespread adoption of Internet of Things(IoT)technology,the innovative concept of the Internet of Vehicles(IoV)has emerged,ushering in a new era of intelligent transportation.Since vehi...With the rapid development and widespread adoption of Internet of Things(IoT)technology,the innovative concept of the Internet of Vehicles(IoV)has emerged,ushering in a new era of intelligent transportation.Since vehicles are mobile entities,they move across different domains and need to communicate with the Roadside Unit(RSU)in various regions.However,open environments are highly susceptible to becoming targets for attackers,posing significant risks of malicious attacks.Therefore,it is crucial to design a secure authentication protocol to ensure the security of communication between vehicles and RSUs,particularly in scenarios where vehicles cross domains.In this paper,we propose a provably secure cross-domain authentication and key agreement protocol for IoV.Our protocol comprises two authentication phases:intra-domain authentication and cross-domain authentication.To ensure the security of our protocol,we conducted rigorous analyses based on the ROR(Real-or-Random)model and Scyther.Finally,we show in-depth comparisons of our protocol with existing ones from both security and performance perspectives,fully demonstrating its security and efficiency.展开更多
As the adoption of Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks(VANETs)grows,ensuring secure communication between smart vehicles and remote application servers(APPs)has become a critical challenge.While existing solutions focus on vari...As the adoption of Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks(VANETs)grows,ensuring secure communication between smart vehicles and remote application servers(APPs)has become a critical challenge.While existing solutions focus on various aspects of security,gaps remain in addressing both high security requirements and the resource-constrained nature of VANET environments.This paper proposes an extended-Kerberos protocol that integrates Physical Unclonable Function(PUF)for authentication and key agreement,offering a comprehensive solution to the security challenges in VANETs.The protocol facilitates mutual authentication and secure key agreement between vehicles and APPs,ensuring the confidentiality and integrity of vehicle-to-network(V2N)communications and preventing malicious data injection.Notably,by replacing traditional Kerberos password authentication with Challenge-Response Pairs(CRPs)generated by PUF,the protocol significantly reduces the risk of key leakage.The inherent properties of PUF—such as unclonability and unpredictability—make it an ideal defense against physical attacks,including intrusion,semi-intrusion,and side-channel attacks.The results of this study demonstrate that this approach not only enhances security but also optimizes communication efficiency,reduces latency,and improves overall user experience.The analysis proves that our protocol achieves at least 86%improvement in computational efficiency compared to some existed protocols.This is particularly crucial in resource-constrained VANET environments,where it enables efficient data transmission between vehicles and applications,reduces latency,and enhances the overall user experience.展开更多
As a model for the next generation of the Internet,the metaverse—a fully immersive,hyper-temporal virtual shared space—is transitioning from imagination to reality.At present,the metaverse has been widely applied in...As a model for the next generation of the Internet,the metaverse—a fully immersive,hyper-temporal virtual shared space—is transitioning from imagination to reality.At present,the metaverse has been widely applied in a variety of fields,including education,social entertainment,Internet of vehicles(IoV),healthcare,and virtual tours.In IoVs,researchers primarily focus on using the metaverse to improve the traffic safety of vehicles,while paying limited attention to passengers’social needs.At the same time,Social Internet ofVehicles(SIoV)introduces the concept of social networks in IoV to provide better resources and services for users.However,the problem of single interaction between SIoVand users has become increasingly prominent.In this paper,we first introduce a SIoVenvironment combined with the metaverse.In this environment,we adopt blockchain as the platform of the metaverse to provide a decentralized environment.Concerning passengers’social data may contain sensitive/private information,we then design an authentication and key agreement protocol calledMSIoV-AKAto protect the communications.Through formal security verifications in the real-or-random(ROR)model and using the AVISPA(Automated Validation of Internet Security Protocols and Applications)tool,we firmly verify the security of the protocol.Finally,detailed comparisons are made between our protocol and robust protocols/schemes in terms of computational cost and communication cost.In addition,we implement the MSIoV-AKA protocol in the Ethereum test network and Hyperledger Sawtooth to show the practicality.展开更多
How to ensure the security of device access is a common concern in the Internet of Things(IoT)scenario with extremely high device connection density.To achieve efficient and secure network access for IoT devices with ...How to ensure the security of device access is a common concern in the Internet of Things(IoT)scenario with extremely high device connection density.To achieve efficient and secure network access for IoT devices with constrained resources,this paper proposes a lightweight physical-layer authentication protocol based on Physical Unclonable Function(PUF)and channel pre-equalization.PUF is employed as a secret carrier to provide authentication credentials for devices due to its hardware-based uniqueness and unclonable property.Meanwhile,the short-term reciprocity and spatio-temporal uniqueness of wireless channels are utilized to attach an authentication factor related to the spatio-temporal position of devices and to secure the transmission of authentication messages.The proposed protocol is analyzed formally and informally to prove its correctness and security against typical attacks.Simulation results show its robustness in various radio environments.Moreover,we illustrate the advantages of our protocol in terms of security features and complexity through performance comparison with existing authentication schemes.展开更多
Vehicular Ad-hoc Network(VANET)is a platform that facilitates Vehicle-to-Everything(V2X)interconnection.However,its open communication channels and high-speed mobility introduce security and privacy vulnerabilities.An...Vehicular Ad-hoc Network(VANET)is a platform that facilitates Vehicle-to-Everything(V2X)interconnection.However,its open communication channels and high-speed mobility introduce security and privacy vulnerabilities.Anonymous authentication is crucial in ensuring secure communication and privacy protection in VANET.However,existing anonymous authentication schemes are prone to single points of failure and often overlook the efficient tracking of the true identities of malicious vehicles after pseudonym changes.To address these challenges,we propose an efficient anonymous authentication scheme for blockchain-based VANET.By leveraging blockchain technology,our approach addresses the challenges of single points of failure and high latency,thereby enhancing the service stability and scalability of VANET.The scheme integrates homomorphic encryption and elliptic curve cryptography,allowing vehicles to independently generate new pseudonyms when entering a new domain without third-party assistance.Security analyses and simulation results demonstrate that our scheme achieves effective anonymous authentication in VANET.Moreover,the roadside unit can process 500 messages per 19 ms.As the number of vehicles in the communication domain grows,our scheme exhibits superior messageprocessing capabilities.展开更多
To date,many previous studies have been proposed for driver authentication;however,these solutions have many shortcomings and are still far from practical for real-world applications.In this paper,we tackle the shortc...To date,many previous studies have been proposed for driver authentication;however,these solutions have many shortcomings and are still far from practical for real-world applications.In this paper,we tackle the shortcomings of the existing solutions and reach toward proposing a lightweight and practical authentication system,dubbed DriveMe,for identifying drivers on cars.Our novelty aspects are 1⃝Lightweight scheme that depends only on a single sensor data(i.e.,pressure readings)attached to the driver’s seat and belt.2⃝Practical evaluation in which one-class authentication models are trained from only the owner users and tested using data collected from both owners and attackers.3⃝Rapid Authentication to quickly identify drivers’identities using a few pressure samples collected within short durations(1,2,3,5,or 10 s).4⃝Realistic experiments where the sensory data is collected from real experiments rather than computer simulation tools.We conducted real experiments and collected about 13,200 samples and 22,800 samples of belt-only and seat-only datasets from all 12 users under different settings.To evaluate system effectiveness,we implemented extensive evaluation scenarios using four one-class detectors One-Class Support Vector Machine(OCSVM),Local Outlier Factor(LOF),Isolation Forest(IF),and Elliptic Envelope(EE),three dataset types(belt-only,seat-only,and fusion),and four different dataset sizes.Our average experimental results show that the system can authenticate the driver with an F1 score of 93.1%for seat-based data using OCSVM classifier,an F1 score of 98.53%for fusion-based data using LOF classifier,an F1 score of 91.65%for fusion-based data using IF classifier,and an F1 score of 95.79%for fusion-based data using EE classifier.展开更多
The Internet of Things(IoT)is extensively applied across various industrial domains,such as smart homes,factories,and intelligent transportation,becoming integral to daily life.Establishing robust policies for managin...The Internet of Things(IoT)is extensively applied across various industrial domains,such as smart homes,factories,and intelligent transportation,becoming integral to daily life.Establishing robust policies for managing and governing IoT devices is imperative.Secure authentication for IoT devices in resource-constrained environments remains challenging due to the limitations of conventional complex protocols.Prior methodologies enhanced mutual authentication through key exchange protocols or complex operations,which are impractical for lightweight devices.To address this,our study introduces the privacy-preserving software-defined range proof(SDRP)model,which achieves secure authentication with low complexity.SDRP minimizes the overhead of confidentiality and authentication processes by utilizing range proof to verify whether the attribute information of a user falls within a specific range.Since authentication is performed using a digital ID sequence generated from indirect personal data,it can avoid the disclosure of actual individual attributes.Experimental results demonstrate that SDRP significantly improves security efficiency,increasing it by an average of 93.02%compared to conventional methods.It mitigates the trade-off between security and efficiency by reducing leakage risk by an average of 98.7%.展开更多
The integration of artificial intelligence(AI)with advanced power technologies is transforming energy system management,particularly through real-time data monitoring and intelligent decision-making driven by Artifici...The integration of artificial intelligence(AI)with advanced power technologies is transforming energy system management,particularly through real-time data monitoring and intelligent decision-making driven by Artificial Intelligence Generated Content(AIGC).However,the openness of power system channels and the resource-constrained nature of power sensors have led to new challenges for the secure transmission of power data and decision instructions.Although traditional public key cryptographic primitives can offer high security,the substantial key management and computational overhead associated with these primitives make them unsuitable for power systems.To ensure the real-time and security of power data and command transmission,we propose a lightweight identity authentication scheme tailored for power AIGC systems.The scheme utilizes lightweight symmetric encryption algorithms,minimizing the resource overhead on power sensors.Additionally,it incorporates a dynamic credential update mechanism,which can realize the rotation and update of temporary credentials to ensure anonymity and security.We rigorously validate the security of the scheme using the Real-or-Random(ROR)model and AVISPA simulation,and the results show that our scheme can resist various active and passive attacks.Finally,performance comparisons and NS3 simulation results demonstrate that our proposed scheme offers enhanced security features with lower overhead,making it more suitable for power AIGC systems compared to existing solutions.展开更多
文摘Car manufacturers aim to enhance the use of two-factor authentication (2FA) to protect keyless entry systems in contemporary cars. Despite providing significant ease for users, keyless entry systems have become more susceptible to appealing attacks like relay attacks and critical fob hacking. These weaknesses present considerable security threats, resulting in unauthorized entry and car theft. The suggested approach combines a conventional keyless entry feature with an extra security measure. Implementing multi-factor authentication significantly improves the security of systems that allow keyless entry by reducing the likelihood of unauthorized access. Research shows that the benefits of using two-factor authentication, such as a substantial increase in security, far outweigh any minor drawbacks.
文摘The rise of the digital economy and the comfort of accessing by way of user mobile devices expedite human endeavors in financial transactions over the Virtual Private Network(VPN)backbone.This prominent application of VPN evades the hurdles involved in physical money exchange.The VPN acts as a gateway for the authorized user in accessing the banking server to provide mutual authentication between the user and the server.The security in the cloud authentication server remains vulnerable to the results of threat in JP Morgan Data breach in 2014,Capital One Data Breach in 2019,and manymore cloud server attacks over and over again.These attacks necessitate the demand for a strong framework for authentication to secure from any class of threat.This research paper,propose a framework with a base of EllipticalCurve Cryptography(ECC)to performsecure financial transactions throughVirtual PrivateNetwork(VPN)by implementing strongMulti-Factor Authentication(MFA)using authentication credentials and biometric identity.The research results prove that the proposed model is to be an ideal scheme for real-time implementation.The security analysis reports that the proposed model exhibits high level of security with a minimal response time of 12 s on an average of 1000 users.
文摘Multi-factor Authentication(MFA)often referred to as Two-factor Authentication(2FA),which is a subset of MFA,is the practice of implementing additional security methods on top of a standard username and password to help authenticate the identity of a user and increase the security of data.This chapter will investigate the problem with username and password logins,the different types of authentication,current best practice for multi-factor authentication and interpretations about how the technology will grow in the upcoming years.
基金Taif University Researchers Supporting Project number(TURSP-2020/98),Taif University,Taif,Saudi Arabia。
文摘Cloud-based SDN(Software Defined Network)integration offers new kinds of agility,flexibility,automation,and speed in the network.Enterprises and Cloud providers both leverage the benefits as networks can be configured and optimized based on the application requirement.The integration of cloud and SDN paradigms has played an indispensable role in improving ubiquitous health care services.It has improved the real-time monitoring of patients by medical practitioners.Patients’data get stored at the central server on the cloud from where it is available to medical practitioners in no time.The centralisation of data on the server makes it more vulnerable to malicious attacks and causes a major threat to patients’privacy.In recent days,several schemes have been proposed to ensure the safety of patients’data.But most of the techniques still lack the practical implementation and safety of data.In this paper,a secure multi-factor authentication protocol using a hash function has been proposed.BAN(Body Area Network)logic has been used to formally analyse the proposed scheme and ensure that no unauthenticated user can steal sensitivepatient information.Security Protocol Animator(SPAN)–Automated Validation of Internet Security Protocols and Applications(AVISPA)tool has been used for simulation.The results prove that the proposed scheme ensures secure access to the database in terms of spoofing and identification.Performance comparisons of the proposed scheme with other related historical schemes regarding time complexity,computation cost which accounts to only 423 ms in proposed,and security parameters such as identification and spoofing prove its efficiency.
文摘Most network service providers like MTN Nigeria, currently use two-factor authentication for their 4G wireless networks. This exposes the network subscribers to identify theft and users data to security threats like snooping, sniffing, spoofing and phishing. There is need to curb these problems with the use of an enhanced multi-factor authentication approach. The objective of this work is to create a multi-factor authentication software for a 4G wireless network. Multi-factor authentication involves user’s knowledge factor, user’s possession factor and user’s inherence factor;that is who the user is to be presented before system access can be granted. The research methodologies used for this work include Structured System Analysis and Design Methodology, SSADM and Prototyping. The result of this work will be a Multi-factor authentications software. This software was designed with programming languages like ASP. NET, C# and Microsoft SQL Server for the database.
文摘User’s data is considered as a vital asset of several organizations.Migrating data to the cloud computing is not an easy decision for any organization due to the privacy and security concerns.Service providers must ensure that both data and applications that will be stored on the cloud should be protected in a secure environment.The data stored on the public cloud will be vulnerable to outside and inside attacks.This paper provides interactive multi-layer authentication frameworks for securing user identities on the cloud.Different access control policies are applied for verifying users on the cloud.A security mechanism is applied to the cloud application that includes user registration,granting user privileges,and generating user authentication factor.An intrusion detection system is embedded to the security mechanism to detect malicious users.The multi factor authentication,intrusion detection,and access control techniques can be used for ensuring the identity of the user.Finally,encryption techniques are used for protecting the data from being disclosed.Experimental results are carried out to verify the accuracy and efficiency of the proposed frameworks and mechanism.The results recorded high detection rate with low false positive alarms.
基金supported by the Key Project of Science and Technology Research by Chongqing Education Commission under Grant KJZD-K202400610the Chongqing Natural Science Foundation General Project Grant CSTB2025NSCQ-GPX1263.
文摘The ubiquitous adoption of mobile devices as essential platforms for sensitive data transmission has heightened the demand for secure client-server communication.Although various authentication and key agreement protocols have been developed,current approaches are constrained by homogeneous cryptosystem frameworks,namely public key infrastructure(PKI),identity-based cryptography(IBC),or certificateless cryptography(CLC),each presenting limitations in client-server architectures.Specifically,PKI incurs certificate management overhead,IBC introduces key escrow risks,and CLC encounters cross-system interoperability challenges.To overcome these shortcomings,this study introduces a heterogeneous signcryption-based authentication and key agreement protocol that synergistically integrates IBC for client operations(eliminating PKI’s certificate dependency)with CLC for server implementation(mitigating IBC’s key escrow issue while preserving efficiency).Rigorous security analysis under the mBR(modified Bellare-Rogaway)model confirms the protocol’s resistance to adaptive chosen-ciphertext attacks.Quantitative comparisons demonstrate that the proposed protocol achieves 10.08%–71.34%lower communication overhead than existing schemes across multiple security levels(80-,112-,and 128-bit)compared to existing protocols.
基金supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China:Space-based occultation detection with ground-based GNSS atmospheric horizontal gradient model(41904033).
文摘The satellite-based augmentation system(SBAS)provides differential and integrity augmentation services for life safety fields of aviation and navigation.However,the signal structure of SBAS is public,which incurs a risk of spoofing attacks.To improve the anti-spoofing capability of the SBAS,European Union and the United States conduct research on navigation message authentication,and promote the standardization of SBAS message authentication.For the development of Beidou satellite-based augmentation system(BDSBAS),this paper proposes navigation message authentication based on the Chinese commercial cryptographic standards.Firstly,this paper expounds the architecture and principles of the SBAS message authentication,and then carries out the design of timed efficient streaming losstolerant authentication scheme(TESLA)and elliptic curve digital signature algorithm(ECDSA)authentication schemes based on Chinese commercial cryptographic standards,message arrangement and the design of over-the-air rekeying(OTAR)message.Finally,this paper conducts a theoretical analysis of the time between authentications(TBA)and maximum authentication latency(MAL)for L5 TESLA-I and L5 ECDSA-Q,and further simulates the reception time of OTAR message,TBA and MAL from the aspects of OTAR message weight and demodulation error rate.The simulation results can provide theoretical supports for the standardization of BDSBAS message authentication.
基金supported in part by National Natural Science Foundation of China(under Grant 61902163)the Jiangsu“Qing Lan Project”,Natural Science Foundation of the Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions of China(Major Research Project:23KJA520007)Postgraduate Research&Practice Innovation Program of Jiangsu Province(No.SJCX25_1303).
文摘Unmanned Aerial Vehicles(UAVs)in Flying Ad-Hoc Networks(FANETs)are widely used in both civilian and military fields,but they face severe security,trust,and privacy vulnerabilities due to their high mobility,dynamic topology,and open wireless channels.Existing security protocols for Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks(MANETs)cannot be directly applied to FANETs,as FANETs require lightweight,high real-time performance,and strong anonymity.The current FANETs security protocol cannot simultaneously meet the requirements of strong anonymity,high security,and low overhead in high dynamic and resource-constrained scenarios.To address these challenges,this paper proposes an Anonymous Authentication and Key Exchange Protocol(AAKE-OWA)for UAVs in FANETs based on OneWay Accumulators(OWA).During the UAV registration phase,the Key Management Center(KMC)generates an identity ticket for each UAV using OWA and transmits it securely to the UAV’s on-board tamper-proof module.In the key exchange phase,UAVs generate temporary authentication tickets with random numbers and compute the same session key leveraging the quasi-commutativity of OWA.For mutual anonymous authentication,UAVs encrypt random numbers with the session key and verify identities by comparing computed values with authentication values.Formal analysis using the Scyther tool confirms that the protocol resists identity spoofing,man-in-the-middle,and replay attacks.Through Burrows Abadi Needham(BAN)logic proof,it achieves mutual anonymity,prevents simulation and physical capture attacks,and ensures secure connectivity of 1.Experimental comparisons with existing protocols prove that the AAKE-OWA protocol has lower computational overhead,communication overhead,and storage overhead,making it more suitable for resource-constrained FANET scenarios.Performance comparison experiments show that,compared with other schemes,this scheme only requires 8 one-way accumulator operations and 4 symmetric encryption/decryption operations,with a total computational overhead as low as 2.3504 ms,a communication overhead of merely 1216 bits,and a storage overhead of 768 bits.We have achieved a reduction in computational costs from 6.3%to 90.3%,communication costs from 5.0%to 69.1%,and overall storage costs from 33%to 68%compared to existing solutions.It can meet the performance requirements of lightweight,real-time,and anonymity for unmanned aerial vehicles(UAVs)networks.
基金This work is part of the‘Intelligent and Cyber-Secure Platform for Adaptive Optimization in the Simultaneous Operation of Heterogeneous Autonomous Robots(PICRAH4.0)’with reference MIG-20232082,funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033supported by the Universidad Internacional de La Rioja(UNIR)through the Precompetitive Research Project entitled“Nuevos Horizontes en Internet de las Cosas y NewSpace(NEWIOT)”,reference PP-2024-13,funded under the 2024 Call for Research Projects.
文摘This work evaluates an architecture for decentralized authentication of Internet of Things(IoT)devices in Low Earth Orbit(LEO)satellite networks using IOTA Identity technology.To the best of our knowledge,it is the first proposal to integrate IOTA’s Directed Acyclic Graph(DAG)-based identity framework into satellite IoT environments,enabling lightweight and distributed authentication under intermittent connectivity.The system leverages Decentralized Identifiers(DIDs)and Verifiable Credentials(VCs)over the Tangle,eliminating the need for mining and sequential blocks.An identity management workflow is implemented that supports the creation,validation,deactivation,and reactivation of IoT devices,and is experimentally validated on the Shimmer Testnet.Three metrics are defined and measured:resolution time,deactivation time,and reactivation time.To improve robustness,an algorithmic optimization is introduced that minimizes communication overhead and reduces latency during deactivation.The experimental results are compared with orbital simulations of satellite revisit times to assess operational feasibility.Unlike blockchain-based approaches,which typically suffer from high confirmation delays and scalability constraints,the proposed DAG architecture provides fast,cost-free operations suitable for resource-constrained IoT devices.The results show that authentication can be efficiently performed within satellite connectivity windows,positioning IOTA Identity as a viable solution for secure and scalable IoT authentication in LEO satellite networks.
基金Deanship of Graduate Studies and Scientific Research at Qassim University for financial support(QU-APC-2025).
文摘Cyber-criminals target smart connected devices for spyware distribution and security breaches,but existing Internet of Things(IoT)security standards are insufficient.Major IoT industry players prioritize market share over security,leading to insecure smart products.Traditional host-based protection solutions are less effective due to limited resources.Overcoming these challenges and enhancing the security of IoT Devices requires a security design at the network level that uses lightweight cryptographic parameters.In order to handle control,administration,and security concerns in traditional networking,the Gateway Node offers a contemporary networking architecture.By managing all network-level computations and complexity,the Gateway Node relieves IoT devices of these responsibilities.In this study,we introduce a novel privacy-preserving security architecture for gateway-node smart homes.Subsequently,we develop Smart Homes,An Efficient,Anonymous,and Robust Authentication Scheme(EARAS)based on the foundational principles of this security architecture.Furthermore,we formally examine the security characteristics of our suggested protocol that makes use of methodology such as ProVerif,supplemented by an informal analysis of security.Lastly,we conduct performance evaluations and comparative analyses to assess the efficacy of our scheme.Performance analysis shows that EARAS achieves up to 30%to 54%more efficient than most protocols and lower computation cost compared to Banerjee et al.’s scheme,and significantly reduces communication overhead compared to other recent protocols,while ensuring comprehensive security.Our objective is to provide robust security measures for smart homes while addressing resource constraints and preserving user privacy.
文摘To ensure the access security of 6G,physical-layer authentication(PLA)leverages the randomness and space-time-frequency uniqueness of the channel to provide unique identity signatures for transmitters.Furthermore,the introduction of artificial intelligence(AI)facilitates the learning of the distribution characteristics of channel fingerprints,effectively addressing the uncertainties and unknown dynamic challenges in wireless link modeling.This paper reviews representative AI-enabled PLA schemes and proposes a graph neural network(GNN)-based PLA approach in response to the challenges existing methods face in identifying mobile users.Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms six baseline schemes in terms of authentication accuracy.Furthermore,this paper outlines the future development directions of PLA.
基金supported by the Startup Foundation for Introducing Talent of Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology and Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province,China(Grant no.ZR202111230202).
文摘With the rapid development and widespread adoption of Internet of Things(IoT)technology,the innovative concept of the Internet of Vehicles(IoV)has emerged,ushering in a new era of intelligent transportation.Since vehicles are mobile entities,they move across different domains and need to communicate with the Roadside Unit(RSU)in various regions.However,open environments are highly susceptible to becoming targets for attackers,posing significant risks of malicious attacks.Therefore,it is crucial to design a secure authentication protocol to ensure the security of communication between vehicles and RSUs,particularly in scenarios where vehicles cross domains.In this paper,we propose a provably secure cross-domain authentication and key agreement protocol for IoV.Our protocol comprises two authentication phases:intra-domain authentication and cross-domain authentication.To ensure the security of our protocol,we conducted rigorous analyses based on the ROR(Real-or-Random)model and Scyther.Finally,we show in-depth comparisons of our protocol with existing ones from both security and performance perspectives,fully demonstrating its security and efficiency.
基金supported in part by the Jiangsu“Qing Lan Project”,Natural Science Foundation of the Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions of China(Major Research Project:23KJA520007)Postgraduate Research&Practice Innovation Program of Jiangsu Province(No.SJCX25_1303).
文摘As the adoption of Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks(VANETs)grows,ensuring secure communication between smart vehicles and remote application servers(APPs)has become a critical challenge.While existing solutions focus on various aspects of security,gaps remain in addressing both high security requirements and the resource-constrained nature of VANET environments.This paper proposes an extended-Kerberos protocol that integrates Physical Unclonable Function(PUF)for authentication and key agreement,offering a comprehensive solution to the security challenges in VANETs.The protocol facilitates mutual authentication and secure key agreement between vehicles and APPs,ensuring the confidentiality and integrity of vehicle-to-network(V2N)communications and preventing malicious data injection.Notably,by replacing traditional Kerberos password authentication with Challenge-Response Pairs(CRPs)generated by PUF,the protocol significantly reduces the risk of key leakage.The inherent properties of PUF—such as unclonability and unpredictability—make it an ideal defense against physical attacks,including intrusion,semi-intrusion,and side-channel attacks.The results of this study demonstrate that this approach not only enhances security but also optimizes communication efficiency,reduces latency,and improves overall user experience.The analysis proves that our protocol achieves at least 86%improvement in computational efficiency compared to some existed protocols.This is particularly crucial in resource-constrained VANET environments,where it enables efficient data transmission between vehicles and applications,reduces latency,and enhances the overall user experience.
基金supported by the Startup Foundation for Introducing Talent of Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology and Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province,China(Grant no.ZR202111230202).
文摘As a model for the next generation of the Internet,the metaverse—a fully immersive,hyper-temporal virtual shared space—is transitioning from imagination to reality.At present,the metaverse has been widely applied in a variety of fields,including education,social entertainment,Internet of vehicles(IoV),healthcare,and virtual tours.In IoVs,researchers primarily focus on using the metaverse to improve the traffic safety of vehicles,while paying limited attention to passengers’social needs.At the same time,Social Internet ofVehicles(SIoV)introduces the concept of social networks in IoV to provide better resources and services for users.However,the problem of single interaction between SIoVand users has become increasingly prominent.In this paper,we first introduce a SIoVenvironment combined with the metaverse.In this environment,we adopt blockchain as the platform of the metaverse to provide a decentralized environment.Concerning passengers’social data may contain sensitive/private information,we then design an authentication and key agreement protocol calledMSIoV-AKAto protect the communications.Through formal security verifications in the real-or-random(ROR)model and using the AVISPA(Automated Validation of Internet Security Protocols and Applications)tool,we firmly verify the security of the protocol.Finally,detailed comparisons are made between our protocol and robust protocols/schemes in terms of computational cost and communication cost.In addition,we implement the MSIoV-AKA protocol in the Ethereum test network and Hyperledger Sawtooth to show the practicality.
基金supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.61931020,No.U19B2024 and No.62371462).
文摘How to ensure the security of device access is a common concern in the Internet of Things(IoT)scenario with extremely high device connection density.To achieve efficient and secure network access for IoT devices with constrained resources,this paper proposes a lightweight physical-layer authentication protocol based on Physical Unclonable Function(PUF)and channel pre-equalization.PUF is employed as a secret carrier to provide authentication credentials for devices due to its hardware-based uniqueness and unclonable property.Meanwhile,the short-term reciprocity and spatio-temporal uniqueness of wireless channels are utilized to attach an authentication factor related to the spatio-temporal position of devices and to secure the transmission of authentication messages.The proposed protocol is analyzed formally and informally to prove its correctness and security against typical attacks.Simulation results show its robustness in various radio environments.Moreover,we illustrate the advantages of our protocol in terms of security features and complexity through performance comparison with existing authentication schemes.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant U2001213.
文摘Vehicular Ad-hoc Network(VANET)is a platform that facilitates Vehicle-to-Everything(V2X)interconnection.However,its open communication channels and high-speed mobility introduce security and privacy vulnerabilities.Anonymous authentication is crucial in ensuring secure communication and privacy protection in VANET.However,existing anonymous authentication schemes are prone to single points of failure and often overlook the efficient tracking of the true identities of malicious vehicles after pseudonym changes.To address these challenges,we propose an efficient anonymous authentication scheme for blockchain-based VANET.By leveraging blockchain technology,our approach addresses the challenges of single points of failure and high latency,thereby enhancing the service stability and scalability of VANET.The scheme integrates homomorphic encryption and elliptic curve cryptography,allowing vehicles to independently generate new pseudonyms when entering a new domain without third-party assistance.Security analyses and simulation results demonstrate that our scheme achieves effective anonymous authentication in VANET.Moreover,the roadside unit can process 500 messages per 19 ms.As the number of vehicles in the communication domain grows,our scheme exhibits superior messageprocessing capabilities.
基金supported by the Institute of Information&Communications Technology Planning&Evaluation(1ITP)(Project Nos.RS-2024-00438551,30%,2022-11220701,30%,2021-0-01816,30%)the National Research Foundation of Korea(NRF)grant funded by the Korean Government(Project No.RS2023-00208460,10%).
文摘To date,many previous studies have been proposed for driver authentication;however,these solutions have many shortcomings and are still far from practical for real-world applications.In this paper,we tackle the shortcomings of the existing solutions and reach toward proposing a lightweight and practical authentication system,dubbed DriveMe,for identifying drivers on cars.Our novelty aspects are 1⃝Lightweight scheme that depends only on a single sensor data(i.e.,pressure readings)attached to the driver’s seat and belt.2⃝Practical evaluation in which one-class authentication models are trained from only the owner users and tested using data collected from both owners and attackers.3⃝Rapid Authentication to quickly identify drivers’identities using a few pressure samples collected within short durations(1,2,3,5,or 10 s).4⃝Realistic experiments where the sensory data is collected from real experiments rather than computer simulation tools.We conducted real experiments and collected about 13,200 samples and 22,800 samples of belt-only and seat-only datasets from all 12 users under different settings.To evaluate system effectiveness,we implemented extensive evaluation scenarios using four one-class detectors One-Class Support Vector Machine(OCSVM),Local Outlier Factor(LOF),Isolation Forest(IF),and Elliptic Envelope(EE),three dataset types(belt-only,seat-only,and fusion),and four different dataset sizes.Our average experimental results show that the system can authenticate the driver with an F1 score of 93.1%for seat-based data using OCSVM classifier,an F1 score of 98.53%for fusion-based data using LOF classifier,an F1 score of 91.65%for fusion-based data using IF classifier,and an F1 score of 95.79%for fusion-based data using EE classifier.
基金funding from the Korea Institute for Advancement of Technology(KIAT)through a grant provided by the Korean Government Ministry of Trade,Industry,and Energy(MOTIE)(RS-2024-00415520,Training Industrial Security Specialist for High-Tech Industry)Additional support was received from the Ministry of Science and ICT(MSIT)under the ICAN(ICT Challenge and Advanced Network of HRD)program(No.IITP-2022-RS-2022-00156310)overseen by the Institute of Information&Communication Technology Planning and Evaluation(IITP).
文摘The Internet of Things(IoT)is extensively applied across various industrial domains,such as smart homes,factories,and intelligent transportation,becoming integral to daily life.Establishing robust policies for managing and governing IoT devices is imperative.Secure authentication for IoT devices in resource-constrained environments remains challenging due to the limitations of conventional complex protocols.Prior methodologies enhanced mutual authentication through key exchange protocols or complex operations,which are impractical for lightweight devices.To address this,our study introduces the privacy-preserving software-defined range proof(SDRP)model,which achieves secure authentication with low complexity.SDRP minimizes the overhead of confidentiality and authentication processes by utilizing range proof to verify whether the attribute information of a user falls within a specific range.Since authentication is performed using a digital ID sequence generated from indirect personal data,it can avoid the disclosure of actual individual attributes.Experimental results demonstrate that SDRP significantly improves security efficiency,increasing it by an average of 93.02%compared to conventional methods.It mitigates the trade-off between security and efficiency by reducing leakage risk by an average of 98.7%.
文摘The integration of artificial intelligence(AI)with advanced power technologies is transforming energy system management,particularly through real-time data monitoring and intelligent decision-making driven by Artificial Intelligence Generated Content(AIGC).However,the openness of power system channels and the resource-constrained nature of power sensors have led to new challenges for the secure transmission of power data and decision instructions.Although traditional public key cryptographic primitives can offer high security,the substantial key management and computational overhead associated with these primitives make them unsuitable for power systems.To ensure the real-time and security of power data and command transmission,we propose a lightweight identity authentication scheme tailored for power AIGC systems.The scheme utilizes lightweight symmetric encryption algorithms,minimizing the resource overhead on power sensors.Additionally,it incorporates a dynamic credential update mechanism,which can realize the rotation and update of temporary credentials to ensure anonymity and security.We rigorously validate the security of the scheme using the Real-or-Random(ROR)model and AVISPA simulation,and the results show that our scheme can resist various active and passive attacks.Finally,performance comparisons and NS3 simulation results demonstrate that our proposed scheme offers enhanced security features with lower overhead,making it more suitable for power AIGC systems compared to existing solutions.
