:: Volume 11, Issue 2 (3-2023) ::
منادی 2023, 11(2): 44-51 Back to browse issues page
Security Analysis of an Anonymous Authentication and Key Agreement Scheme in Wireless Body Area Network
Saba Marandi *1 , Farrokhlagha Moazzami1
1- Cyberspace Research Institute, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran
Abstract:   (3983 Views)
In medical fields, a wearable body area sensors network is a network of sensors placed inside human bodies or on their skin. These multi-functional sensors provide all patients and medical personnel with optimized and comfortable services. The patient’s physiological information transferred in this network is very sensitive and confidential; Therefore, transmitting through an insecure channel requires high anonymity, un-traceability, and privacy-preserving of personal data. Furthermore, the wearable body area network is a small part of the Internet of Things (IoT) community, and as the devices are resource-constraint, lightweight protocols are needed to guarantee the information’s authenticity, confidentiality, and integrity. Hence, a large number of schemes were proposed by different researchers to improve the reliability of the protocols. Recently Ankur Gupta and his colleagues proposed a lightweight mutual authentication and key agreement protocol and proved its security against well-known attacks. In this paper, we will demonstrate that their proposed protocol is vulnerable to the sensor node impersonation attack and does not provide the necessary security for communicating data; Then, we will offer a new solution to overcome this problem.
Keywords: WBAN, Mutual authentication, Key agreement, Sensor node impersonation attack
Full-Text [PDF 1283 kb]   (1653 Downloads)    
Type of Study: Research Article | Subject: Cryptology and Information Security
Received: 2023/02/24 | Accepted: 2023/03/1 | Published: 2023/03/1


XML   Persian Abstract   Print



Rights and permissions
Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
Volume 11, Issue 2 (3-2023) Back to browse issues page