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Mutual authentication scheme of IoT devices in fog computing environment

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The radical shift in the technology with the advent of connected things has led to the significant proliferation in demand for IoT devices, commonly called ‘smart devices’. These devices are capable of data collection, which can help in umpteen applications, particularly in healthcare. With the tremendous growth in these resource-constrained end devices, there has been a substantial increase in the number of attack varieties. Since these end devices deal with the sensitive data that might cause severe damage if not handled properly. Hence, defending its integrity, preserving its privacy, and maintaining its confidentiality as well as availability is of utmost importance. However, there are many protocols, models, architecture tools, etc. proposed to provide security. Nevertheless, almost every solution propound so far is not fully resilient and lacks in giving full protection to the system in some way or the other. So here, we have proposed a lightweight anonymous mutual authentication scheme for end devices and fog nodes.

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Singh, S., Chaurasiya, V.K. Mutual authentication scheme of IoT devices in fog computing environment. Cluster Comput 24, 1643–1657 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10586-020-03211-1

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