Paper 2023/1065

A Note on ``A Lightweight and Privacy-Preserving Mutual Authentication and Key Agreement Protocol for Internet of Drones Environment''

Zhengjun Cao
Lihua Liu
Abstract

We show that the key agreement scheme [IEEE Internet Things J., 9(12), 2022, 9918--9933] is flawed. In order to authenticate each other, all participants use message authentication code (MAC) to generate tags for exchanged data. But MAC is a cryptographic technique which requires that the sender and receiver share a symmetric key. The scheme tries to establish a new shared key by using an old shared key, which results in a vicious circle. To the best of our knowledge, it is the first time to discuss such a flaw in the related literatures.

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Category
Attacks and cryptanalysis
Publication info
Preprint.
Keywords
Key agreementInternet of dronesRandom shuffleMessage authentication codeKey update
Contact author(s)
caozhj @ shu edu cn
liulh @ shmtu edu cn
History
2023-07-11: approved
2023-07-08: received
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Short URL
https://ia.cr/2023/1065
License
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CC0

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2023/1065,
      author = {Zhengjun Cao and Lihua Liu},
      title = {A Note on ``A Lightweight and Privacy-Preserving Mutual Authentication and Key Agreement Protocol for Internet of Drones Environment''},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2023/1065},
      year = {2023},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1065}
}
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