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The yoking-proof-based authentication protocol for cloud-assisted wearable devices

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Along with the development of IoT applications, wearable devices are becoming popular for monitoring user data to provide intelligent service support. The wearable devices confront severe security issues compared with traditional short-range communications. Due to the limitations of computation capabilities and communication resources, it brings more challenges to design security solutions for the resource-constrained wearable devices in IoT applications. In this work, a yoking-proof-based authentication protocol (YPAP) is proposed for cloud-assisted wearable devices. In the YPAP, a physical unclonable function and lightweight cryptographic operators are jointly applied to realize mutual authentication between a smart phone and two wearable devices, and yoking-proofs are established for the cloud server to perform simultaneous verification. Meanwhile, Rubin logic-based security formal analysis is performed to prove that the YPAP has theoretical design correctness. It indicates that the proposed YPAP is flexible for lightweight wearable devices in IoT applications.

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Acknowledgments

This work was funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China (61471035, 61402117), Fundamental Research Funds for Central Universities (06105031), Beijing Municipal Organization Department Talents Project (201500002685XG245), and Science and Technology Foundation of Beijing (Z141100002714003, Z151100002115041). Related conference paper has been published in the 1st International Workshop on Privacy Threats in Ubiquitous Computing, The 12th IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC2015), August 10–14, 2015, Beijing, China.

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  1. School of Computer Science, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China

    Wei Liu

  2. Research Institute, Run Technologies Co., Ltd. Beijing, Beijing, China

    Hong Liu & Yueliang Wan

  3. Key Laboratory of Information Network Security, The Third Research Institute of the Ministry of Public Security, Shanghai, China

    Huafeng Kong

  4. School of Computer and Communication Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, China

    Huansheng Ning

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Liu, W., Liu, H., Wan, Y. et al. The yoking-proof-based authentication protocol for cloud-assisted wearable devices. Pers Ubiquit Comput 20, 469–479 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-016-0926-8

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