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Efficient Privacy-Preserving Anonymous Authentication Protocol for Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks

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Vehicular ad-hoc network (VANET) has been considered as one of the most promising wireless sensor technologies, which could enhance driving convenience and traffic efficiency through real-time information interaction. Nevertheless, emerging security issues (e.g., confidentiality, integrity, identity privacy, message authentication) will hinder the widespread deployment of VANETs. To address these issues, in this paper, we propose an efficient privacy-preserving anonymous authentication protocol for VANETs. We first design an identity-based signature algorithm, and exploit it with an account information of a vehicle to propose our anonymous authentication protocol. The protocol enables each vehicle to anonymously send an authenticated message to nearby roadside units (RSUs) in a confidential way, and efficiently check the feedback information from nearby RSUs. Simultaneously, the protocol achieves key-exchange functionality, which could produce a session key for later secure communication between vehicles and RSUs. Finally, we give the security analysis of the proposed protocol and conduct a comprehensive performance evaluation, the results demonstrate its feasibility in the secure deployment of VANETs.

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This work was supported in part by the National Key Research and Development Program of China under Grant 2017YFB0802000, in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 61902327 and Grant 61872060, in part by the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation under Grant 2020M681316, in part by the Youth Scientific and Technology Innovation Team Project of SWPU under Grant 2019CXTD05, in part by the Chengdu Key R & D project under Grant 2021-YF05-00965-SN.

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    Xiaojun Zhang, Wenchen Wang, Liming Mu, Chao Huang & Hong Fu

  2. Center for Cyber Security, School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, 611731, China

    Xiaojun Zhang & Chunxiang Xu

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XZ, WW and LM developed the idea of the study, participated in its design and coordination and helped to draft the paper. WW, CH and HF contributed to the acquisition and interpretation of data. CX provided critical review and substantially revised the paper. All authors read and approved the final paper.

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Zhang, X., Wang, W., Mu, L. et al. Efficient Privacy-Preserving Anonymous Authentication Protocol for Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks. Wireless Pers Commun 120, 3171–3187 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-021-08605-x

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