A note on ``a lightweight mutual authentication and key agreement protocol for remote surgery application in Tactile Internet environment''

Zhengjun Cao; Lihua Liu

Paper 2023/684

A note on ``a lightweight mutual authentication and key agreement protocol for remote surgery application in Tactile Internet environment''

Zhengjun Cao

Lihua Liu

Abstract

We show that the key agreement scheme [Comput. Commun., 2021(170): 1--18] is insecure against impersonation attacks, because there is a trivial equality which results in the loss of data confidentiality.

Metadata

Available format(s): PDF
Category: Attacks and cryptanalysis
Publication info: Preprint.
Keywords: Mutual authentication Key agreement Impersonation attack Data confidentiality
Contact author(s): caozhj @ shu edu cn
liulh @ shmtu edu cn
History: 2023-05-15: approved; 2023-05-14: received; See all versions
Short URL: https://ia.cr/2023/684
License: CC0

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2023/684,
      author = {Zhengjun Cao and Lihua Liu},
      title = {A note on ``a lightweight mutual authentication and key agreement protocol for remote surgery application in Tactile Internet environment''},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2023/684},
      year = {2023},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/684}
}