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Recently, wireless sensor networks can provide a practicable real-time monitoring system because wireless sensors can be easily deployed in various environments. To provide secure and efficient communication, various user authentication schemes have been proposed. In 2012, He et al. proposed a robust biometric-based user authentication scheme but Yoon and Kim demonstrated that He et al.’s scheme has various security problems. And they proposed an advanced biometric-based user authentication scheme. In this paper, we analyze Yoon and Kim’s scheme and perform the cryptanalysis. We find out that it has still various security weakness such as no perfect forward secrecy, session key exposure by GW node, a DoS attack, no revocation phase, and biometric recognition error.
This research was supported by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Science, ICT&Future Planning (NRF-2014R1A1A2002775).
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Choi, Y., Nam, J., Lee, Y., Jung, S., Won, D. (2015). Cryptanalysis of Advanced Biometric-Based User Authentication Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks. In: Park, J., Stojmenovic, I., Jeong, H., Yi, G. (eds) Computer Science and its Applications. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 330. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-45402-2_190
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