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Secure authentication using ciphertext policy attribute-based encryption in mobile multi-hop networks

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With the dramatic increase of the number of mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet PCs, mobile traffic has increased enormously. Especially, the multimedia data accounts for bulk of the traffic transmitted in mobile networks. To accommodate this growth, device-to-device connection (D2D), which provides infra-connection off-loading, is receiving significant attention. However, we have observed that the majority of the current D2D protocols including Bluetooth and Wi-Fi Direct are vulnerable to man-in-the-middle (MITM) and replay attacks in mobile multi-hop networks. To resolve this problem, in this paper, we propose a novel D2D authentication protocol with a secure initial key establishment using ciphertext-policy attribute-based encryption (CP-ABE). By leveraging CP-ABE, the proposed scheme allows the communicating parties to mutually authenticate and derive the link key in an expressive and secure manner in a multi-hop network environment. We also propose several variations of the proposed scheme for different scenarios in a multi-hop networks without network infrastructure. We prove that the proposed scheme is secure against MITM and replay attack in D2D mobile multi-hop networks. Experimental results indicate that the proposed scheme incurs reasonable computation cost in the real world.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea(NRF) grant funded by the Korea government(MSIP) (No. 2013R1A2A2A01005559). This work was also supported by Institute for Information & communications Technology Promotion(IITP) grant funded by the Korea government(MSIP) (No. B0190-15-2028 and No. R0190-15-2011)

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Korea University, 145 Anam-ro, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul, 136-701, South Korea

    Hyunsoo Kwon, Daeyeong Kim, Changhee Hahn & Junbeom Hur

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Kwon, H., Kim, D., Hahn, C. et al. Secure authentication using ciphertext policy attribute-based encryption in mobile multi-hop networks. Multimed Tools Appl 76, 19507–19521 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-015-3187-z

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