Abstract
Smart healthcare plays a vital role in contemporary society while its security and privacy issues remain critical challenges. With the aim of resolving problems related to the integrity and confidentiality of information transmitted in the smart healthcare, Wang et al. designed a certificateless authenticated key agreement (CL-AKA) scheme recently. However, we analyze their protocol and prove that theirs did not satisfy forward security. Further, this paper proposes an improved authenticated key agreement (AKA) scheme based on the certificateless cryptography. The proposed CL-AKA scheme does not only satisfy the security requirements in smart healthcare networks but also performs more efficient. The performance comparison shows our scheme has comparable efficiency in terms of computation cost.
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This work was supported in part by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 61872449).
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Ma, Y., Ma, Y., Liu, Y., Cheng, Q. (2022). A Secure and Efficient Certificateless Authenticated Key Agreement Scheme for Smart Healthcare. In: Chen, X., Shen, J., Susilo, W. (eds) Cyberspace Safety and Security. CSS 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13547. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18067-5_2
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