A Lightweight and Robust User Authentication Protocol with User Anonymity for IoT-Based Healthcare


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Chen C., Liu S., Chaudhry S. A., Chen Y., Khan M. A.

CMES - Computer Modeling in Engineering and Sciences, vol.130, no.3, pp.307-329, 2022 (SCI-Expanded) identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 130 Issue: 3
  • Publication Date: 2022
  • Doi Number: 10.32604/cmes.2022.018749
  • Journal Name: CMES - Computer Modeling in Engineering and Sciences
  • Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus, Aerospace Database, Communication Abstracts, Compendex, INSPEC, Metadex, zbMATH, Civil Engineering Abstracts
  • Page Numbers: pp.307-329
  • Keywords: Intelligent medical, IoT, User authentication
  • Istanbul Gelisim University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

© 2022 Tech Science Press. All rights reserved.With the rise of the Internet of Things (IoT), the word "intelligent medical care" has increasingly become a major vision. Intelligent medicine adopts the most advanced IoT technology to realize the interaction between patients and people, medical institutions, andmedical equipment. However, with the openness of network transmission, the security and privacy of information transmission have become a major problem. Recently, Masud et al. proposed a lightweight anonymous user authentication protocol for IoT medical treatment, claiming that their method can resist various attacks. However, through analysis of the protocol, we observed that their protocol cannot effectively resist privileged internal attacks, sensor node capture attacks, and stolen authentication attacks, and their protocol does not have perfect forward security. Therefore, we propose a new protocol to resolve the security vulnerabilities inMasud s protocol and remove some redundant parameters, so as tomake the protocol more compact and secure. In addition, we evaluate the security and performance of the new protocol and prove that the overall performance of the new protocol is better than that of other related protocols.