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Cryptanalysis and enhancement of an authentication protocol for secure multimedia communications in IoT-enabled wireless sensor networks

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Multimedia technology is a sub field of Internet of Things (IoT) in which multimedia devices are embedded to Wireless Sensor Network (WSN). In this, such devices are used for the flow of multimedia applications such as videos, audios and still images over the internet. For transferring these applications, sensor node captures all the data and transfer it to Gateway Node (GWN) via open channel. Due to the vulnerability of the open channel from the attackers, there are many security issues involved in it and have been researched for many years. Recently, Mishra et al. have presented an authentication protocol for multimedia technology using wireless sensor networks which can be applied in coal mine environment and authors had claimed that this protocol is secure from various attacks. But, in this paper, their protocol is analyzed and proved that it is vulnerable to sensor node impersonation attack, sensor node anonymity problem and insecure session key agreement. Also, a new authentication protocol has been proposed by overcoming these flaws. ProVerif tool is used for the formal security verification. Moreover, the performance of the proposed protocol in terms of computational cost, communication cost, storage cost and security features is compared with other related schemes and it is shown that the proposed protocol offers more security features.

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  1. Ericsson India Global Services, Gurugram, Haryana, India

    Damandeep Kaur

  2. Department of Computer Science, Engineering, NSUT, New Delhi, India

    Khushil Kumar Saini

  3. Department of Information Technology, NSUT, New Delhi, India

    Devender Kumar

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Kaur, D., Saini, K.K. & Kumar, D. Cryptanalysis and enhancement of an authentication protocol for secure multimedia communications in IoT-enabled wireless sensor networks. Multimed Tools Appl 81, 39367–39385 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-022-12088-8

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