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Lightweight Authentication Protocol Based on Physical Unclonable Function

Hanguang Luo¹, Tao Zou^1,*, Chunming Wu², Dan Li³, Shunbin Li¹, Chu Chu⁴

1 Zhejiang Lab, Hangzhou, 311121, China
2 Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China
3 Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China
4 The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, V1V1V7, Canada

* Corresponding Author: Tao Zou. Email:

Computers, Materials & Continua 2022, 72(3), 5031-5040. https://doi.org/10.32604/cmc.2022.027118

Received 11 January 2022; Accepted 04 March 2022; Issue published 21 April 2022

Abstract

In the emerging Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), authentication problems have become an urgent issue for massive resource-constrained devices because traditional costly security mechanisms are not suitable for them. The security protocol designed for resource-constrained systems should not only be secure but also efficient in terms of usage of energy, storage, and processing. Although recently many lightweight schemes have been proposed, to the best of our knowledge, they are unable to address the problem of privacy preservation with the resistance of Denial of Service (DoS) attacks in a practical way. In this paper, we propose a lightweight authentication protocol based on the Physically Unclonable Function (PUF) to overcome the limitations of existing schemes. The protocol provides an ingenious authentication and synchronization mechanism to solve the contradictions amount forward secrecy, DoS attacks, and resource-constrained. The performance analysis and comparison show that the proposed scheme can better improve the authentication security and efficiency for resource-constrained systems in IIoT.

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