Paper 2023/1132

Cryptanalysis and Improvement of a Flexible and Lightweight Group Authentication Scheme

Ali Rezapour, Iran University of Science and Technology
Zahra Ahmadian, Shahid Beheshti University
Abstract

Shamir’s secret sharing scheme is one of the substantial threshold primitives, based on which many security protocols are constructed such as group authentication schemes. Notwithstanding the unconditional security of Shamir's secret sharing scheme, protocols that are designed based on this scheme do not necessarily inherit this property. In this work, we evaluate the security of a lightweight group authentication scheme, introduced for IoT networks in IEEE IoT Journal in 2020, and prove its weakness against the linear subspace attack, which is a recently-proposed cryptanalytical method for secret sharing-based schemes. Then, we propose an efficient and attack-resistant group authentication protocol for IoT networks.

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Category
Attacks and cryptanalysis
Publication info
Published elsewhere. Iranian Journal of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Iran University of Science and Technology
DOI
10.22068/IJEEE.19.1.2520
Keywords
—Group authenticationIoT NetworksLinear Subspace AttackSecret SharingLightweight
Contact author(s)
ali_rezapour @ elec iust ac ir
z_ahmadian @ sbu ac ir
History
2023-07-24: approved
2023-07-20: received
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Short URL
https://ia.cr/2023/1132
License
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
CC BY-NC

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2023/1132,
      author = {Ali Rezapour and Zahra Ahmadian},
      title = {Cryptanalysis and Improvement of a Flexible and Lightweight Group Authentication Scheme},
      howpublished = {Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2023/1132},
      year = {2023},
      doi = {10.22068/IJEEE.19.1.2520},
      note = {\url{https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1132}},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1132}
}
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