Paper 2023/1065
A Note on ``A Lightweight and Privacy-Preserving Mutual Authentication and Key Agreement Protocol for Internet of Drones Environment''
Abstract
We show that the key agreement scheme [IEEE Internet Things J., 9(12), 2022, 9918--9933] is flawed. In order to authenticate each other, all participants use message authentication code (MAC) to generate tags for exchanged data. But MAC is a cryptographic technique which requires that the sender and receiver share a symmetric key. The scheme tries to establish a new shared key by using an old shared key, which results in a vicious circle. To the best of our knowledge, it is the first time to discuss such a flaw in the related literatures.
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PDF
- Category
- Attacks and cryptanalysis
- Publication info
- Preprint.
- Keywords
- Key agreementInternet of dronesRandom shuffleMessage authentication codeKey update
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caozhj @ shu edu cn
liulh @ shmtu edu cn - History
- 2023-07-11: approved
- 2023-07-08: received
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- Short URL
- https://ia.cr/2023/1065
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CC0
BibTeX
@misc{cryptoeprint:2023/1065,
author = {Zhengjun Cao and Lihua Liu},
title = {A Note on ``A Lightweight and Privacy-Preserving Mutual Authentication and Key Agreement Protocol for Internet of Drones Environment''},
howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2023/1065},
year = {2023},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1065}
}