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As a typical application of Internet of Things (IoT), wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have been widely used in many fields, such as remote healthcare, to gather data of monitoring area. However, due to open nature of wireless channel and limited computing and storage resource of sensor node, how to guarantee the sensitive sensed data are only be accessed by valid user becomes an important issue. Many user authentication protocols for WSNs have been proposed to address this issue, however, previous work more or less have their own weaknesses. Recently, Gope and Hwang proposed a lightweight anonymity authentication for WSNs, and they claimed that their protocol is secure against most attacks. However, our analysis indicates that their protocol still has some design and security flaws. To address the security issue for WSNs, a user authentication protocol with privacy protection for WSNs has been proposed. The analysis and comparisons results show that the proposed protocol is a robust and security one for WSNs.
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos. 61300220 & 61572013 & 61572188, and the Scientific Research Fund of Hunan Provincial Education Department under Grant No. 16B089.
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Li, X., Niu, J., Choo, KK.R. (2017). A Robust Authentication Protocol with Privacy Protection for Wireless Sensor Networks. In: Hancke, G., Markantonakis, K. (eds) Radio Frequency Identification and IoT Security. RFIDSec 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10155. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62024-4_3
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