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Cryptanalysis and Security Improvement of Two Authentication Schemes for Healthcare Systems Using Wireless Medical Sensor Networks
Joint Authors
Mo, Jiaqing
Hu, Zhongwang
Lin, Yuhua
Source
Security and Communication Networks
Issue
Vol. 2020, Issue 2020 (31 Dec. 2020), pp.1-11, 11 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2020-02-19
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
11
Main Subjects
Information Technology and Computer Science
Abstract EN
Wireless medical sensor networks (WMSNs) play an important role in collecting healthcare data of the remote patient and transmitting them to the medical professional for proper diagnosis via wireless channel.
To protect the patient's healthcare data which is private-related and sensitive, some authentication schemes for healthcare systems using WMSN have been proposed to ensure the secure communication between the medical sensors and the medical professional.
Since cryptanalyzing the security defects of authenticated protocols is crucial to put forward solutions and propose truly robust protocols, we scrutinize two state-of-the-art authentication protocols using WMSN for healthcare systems.
Firstly, we examine Ali et al.’s enhanced three-factor based authentication protocol and show that although it provides a formal proof and a security verification, it still fails to resist offline dictionary guessing attack, desynchronization attack, and privileged insider attack and contains a serious flaw in the password change phase.
Secondly, we investigate Shuai et al.’s lightweight and three-factor based authentication protocol and point out that it cannot achieve high security level as they claimed; it is actually subject to offline dictionary guessing attack and privileged insider attack, and it also has a design flaw in the password change phase.
In addition, we suggest several countermeasures to thwart these security weaknesses in these two schemes for WMSN and the similar kinds.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Mo, Jiaqing& Hu, Zhongwang& Lin, Yuhua. 2020. Cryptanalysis and Security Improvement of Two Authentication Schemes for Healthcare Systems Using Wireless Medical Sensor Networks. Security and Communication Networks،Vol. 2020, no. 2020, pp.1-11.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1208435
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Mo, Jiaqing…[et al.]. Cryptanalysis and Security Improvement of Two Authentication Schemes for Healthcare Systems Using Wireless Medical Sensor Networks. Security and Communication Networks No. 2020 (2020), pp.1-11.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1208435
American Medical Association (AMA)
Mo, Jiaqing& Hu, Zhongwang& Lin, Yuhua. Cryptanalysis and Security Improvement of Two Authentication Schemes for Healthcare Systems Using Wireless Medical Sensor Networks. Security and Communication Networks. 2020. Vol. 2020, no. 2020, pp.1-11.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1208435
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1208435