Paper 2014/643
On the Security of `An Efficient Biometric Authentication Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks'
Ashok Kumar Das
Abstract
In 2013, Althobaiti et al. proposed an efficient biometric-based user authentication scheme for wireless sensor networks. We analyze their scheme for the security against known attacks. Though their scheme is efficient in computation, in this paper we show that their scheme has some security pitfalls such as (1) it is not resilient against node capture attack, (2) it is insecure against impersonation attack and (3) it is insecure against man-in-the-middle attack. Finally, we give some pointers for improving their scheme so that the designed scheme needs to be secure against various known attacks.
Metadata
- Available format(s)
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PDF
- Publication info
- Preprint. MINOR revision.
- Keywords
- Wireless sensor networksUser authenticationSmart cardsBiometricsCryptanalysis.
- Contact author(s)
- iitkgp akdas @ gmail com
- History
- 2014-08-27: received
- Short URL
- https://ia.cr/2014/643
- License
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CC BY
BibTeX
@misc{cryptoeprint:2014/643,
author = {Ashok Kumar Das},
title = {On the Security of `An Efficient Biometric Authentication Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks'},
howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2014/643},
year = {2014},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2014/643}
}
