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Efficient and Anonymous Authentication Scheme for Wireless Body Area Networks

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As a significant part of the Internet of Things (IoT), Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) has attract much attention in this years. In WBANs, sensors placed in or around the human body collect the sensitive data of the body and transmit it through an open wireless channel in which the messages may be intercepted, modified, etc. Recently, Wang et al. presented a new anonymous authentication scheme for WBANs and claimed that their scheme can solve the security problems in the previous schemes. Unfortunately, we demonstrate that their scheme cannot withstand impersonation attack. Either an adversary or a malicious legal client could impersonate another legal client to the application provider. In this paper, we give the detailed weakness analysis of Wang et al.’s scheme at first. Then we present a novel anonymous authentication scheme for WBANs and prove that it’s secure under a random oracle model. At last, we demonstrate that our presented anonymous authentication scheme for WBANs is more suitable for practical application than Wang et al.’s scheme due to better security and performance. Compared with Wang et al.’s scheme, the computation cost of our scheme in WBANs has reduced by about 31.58 %.

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Acknowledgments

The authors thank Dr. Jesse M Ehrenfeld and the anonymous reviewer for their valuable comments. This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (nos. 61272112, 61472287, 61402339, 61572370), Key project of Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province (No.2015CFA068), the Project Funded by the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions (PAPD) and the Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center on Atmospheric Environment and Equipment Technology (CICAEET).

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  1. State Key Lab of Software Engineering, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

    Libing Wu & Yubo Zhang

  2. School of Computer Science, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

    Libing Wu & Yubo Zhang

  3. International School of Software, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

    Li Li

  4. School of Computer and Software, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China

    Jian Shen

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Wu, L., Zhang, Y., Li, L. et al. Efficient and Anonymous Authentication Scheme for Wireless Body Area Networks. J Med Syst 40, 134 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10916-016-0491-8

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