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On the Security of a Lightweight Three-Factor-Based User Authentication Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks

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In 2020, Yu et al. proposed a secure, lightweight three-factors user authentication protocol named SLUA-WSA for wireless sensor networks. SLUA-WSA can effectively prevent security threats, ensure anonymity, untraceability, and mutual authentication. However, in this paper, we demonstrate that Yu et al.’s protocol is still vulnerable to known session-specific temporary information attacks.

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  1. College of Computer and Engineering, Shandong University of Science and Technology, Qingdao, 266590, China

    Shuangshuang Liu, Zhiyuan Lee, Lili Chen, Tsu-Yang Wu & Chien-Ming Chen

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  1. Institute of Intelligent Media Technology, Communication, University of Zhejiang, Hangzhou City, China

    Jie-Fang Zhang

  2. College of Computer Science and Engineering, Shandong University of Science and Technology, Shandong, China

    Chien-Ming Chen

  3. College of Computer Science and Engineering, Shandong University of Science and Technology, Qingdao, Shandong, China

    Shu-Chuan Chu

  4. Department of Radio Communications and Video Technologies, Technical University of Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria

    Roumen Kountchev

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Liu, S., Lee, Z., Chen, L., Wu, TY., Chen, CM. (2022). On the Security of a Lightweight Three-Factor-Based User Authentication Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks. In: Zhang, JF., Chen, CM., Chu, SC., Kountchev, R. (eds) Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 268. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-8048-9_30

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