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.

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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
Creative Commons Attribution
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},
      note = {\url{https://eprint.iacr.org/2014/643}},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2014/643}
}
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