Tao Liu, Gan Huang^*, Ping Zhang

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.24, No.3, pp. 519-529, 2018, DOI:10.31209/2018.100000019

Abstract In this article, a new user authentication protocol using trust model, elliptic curve cryptography and biometrics for WSNs is submitted. The result of the trust model analysis indicates that the model can improve the model’s ability of withstanding attacks from the malicious nodes. The results of safety analysis and performance analysis for our proposed user authentication protocol demonstrate that this protocol can be flexible to all sorts of common known attacks and performs similarly or better compared with some active user authentication protocols. It is suitable for WSNs which have a prominent request for the security and the performance. More >

Gyu Ho Choi^a, Jae Hyo Jung^b, Hae Min Moon^c, Youn Tae Kim^b, Sung Bum Pan^c

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.25, No.1, pp. 193-204, 2019, DOI:10.31209/2018.100000055

Abstract Recently, ECG-based user authentication technology, which is strong against forgery and falsification, has been actively studied compared to fingerprint and face authentication. It is impossible to measure the open ECG DB measured with expensive medical equipment in daily living, and the ECG measured with the developed device for easy ECG measurement has much noise. In this paper, we developed a device that easily measures the ECG for user authentication in everyday life, measured the ECG through the development equipment, adjusted the baseline correction of the measured ECG, extracted it from the adjusted ECG do. The proposed system includes the steps… More >

Meichen Xia^{1, *}, Shiliang Li^1,, Liu Liu²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.64, No.3, pp. 1673-1689, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.010177

Abstract Multi-server authenticated key agreement schemes have attracted great attention to both academia and industry in recent years. However, traditional authenticated key agreement schemes in the single-server environment are not suitable for the multi-server environment because the user has to register on each server when he/she wishes to log in various servers for different service. Moreover, it is unreasonable to consider all servers are trusted since the server in a multi-server environment may be a semi-trusted party. In order to overcome these difficulties, we designed a secure threefactor multi-server authenticated key agreement protocol based on elliptic curve cryptography, which needs the… More >

Muhammad Waqas^{1, 2}, Shanshan Tu^{1, 3, *}, Sadaqat Ur Rehman¹, Zahid Halim², Sajid Anwar², Ghulam Abbas², Ziaul Haq Abbas⁴, Obaid Ur Rehman⁵

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.64, No.1, pp. 359-371, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.09821

Abstract Security threats to smart and autonomous vehicles cause potential consequences such as traffic accidents, economically damaging traffic jams, hijacking, motivating to wrong routes, and financial losses for businesses and governments. Smart and autonomous vehicles are connected wirelessly, which are more attracted for attackers due to the open nature of wireless communication. One of the problems is the rogue attack, in which the attacker pretends to be a legitimate user or access point by utilizing fake identity. To figure out the problem of a rogue attack, we propose a reinforcement learning algorithm to identify rogue nodes by exploiting the channel state… More >

Jiangheng Kou¹, Mingxing He^{1, *}, Ling Xiong¹, Zihang Ge², Guangmin Xie¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.64, No.1, pp. 297-312, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.09758

Abstract With the development of communication technologies, various mobile devices and different types of mobile services became available. The emergence of these services has brought great convenience to our lives. The multi-server architecture authentication protocols for mobile cloud computing were proposed to ensure the security and availability between mobile devices and mobile services. However, most of the protocols did not consider the case of hierarchical authentication. In the existing protocol, when a mobile user once registered at the registration center, he/she can successfully authenticate with all mobile service providers that are registered at the registration center, but real application scenarios are… More >

Lili Yan^{1, *}, Shibin Zhang¹, Yan Chang¹, Zhibin Sun², Zhiwei Sheng¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.63, No.3, pp. 1297-1307, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.09873

Abstract Quantum secure direct communication (QSDC) can transmit secret messages directly from one user to another without first establishing a shared secret key, which is different from quantum key distribution. In this paper, we propose a novel quantum secure direct communication protocol based on signal photons and Bell states. Before the execution of the proposed protocol, two participants Alice and Bob exchange their corresponding identity IDA and IDB through quantum key distribution and keep them secret, respectively. Then the message sender, Alice, encodes each secret message bit into two single photons (| 01〉or|10〉) or a Bell state , and composes… More >

Zengpeng Li¹, Jiuru Wang^{2, *}, Chang Choi³, Wenyin Zhang²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.63, No.2, pp. 663-674, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.06565

Abstract Multi-factor authentication (MFA) was proposed by Pointcheval et al. [Pointcheval and Zimmer (2008)] to improve the security of single-factor (and two-factor) authentication. As the backbone of multi-factor authentication, biometric data are widely observed. Especially, how to keep the privacy of biometric at the password database without impairing efficiency is still an open question. Using the vulnerability of encryption (or hash) algorithms, the attacker can still launch offline brute-force attacks on encrypted (or hashed) biometric data. To address the potential risk of biometric disclosure at the password database, in this paper, we propose a novel efficient and secure MFA key exchange… More >

Omid Mahdi Ebadati E.^{1, *}, Farshad Eshghi², Amin Zamani¹

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.122, No.1, pp. 323-349, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2020.08079

Abstract Transmission pipelines are vulnerable to various accidents and acts of vandalism. Therefore, a reliable monitoring system is needed to secure the transmission pipelines. A wireless sensor network is a wireless network consisting of distributed devices distributed at various distances, which monitors the physical and environmental conditions using sensors. Wireless sensor networks have many uses, including the built-in sensor on the outside of the pipeline or installed to support bridge structures, robotics, healthcare, environmental monitoring, etc. Wireless Sensor networks could be used to monitor the temperature, pressure, leak detection and sabotage of transmission lines. Wireless sensor networks are vulnerable to various… More >

Yu Sun^1,2,*, Qiyuan Gao³, Xiaofan Du³, Zhao Gu³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.61, No.3, pp. 1365-1375, 2019, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2019.06294

Abstract In this advanced age, when smart phones are the norm, people utilize social networking, online shopping, and even private information storage through smart phones. As a result, identity authentication has become the most critical security activity in this period of the intelligent craze. By analyzing the shortcomings of the existing authentication methods, this paper proposes an identity authentication method based on the behavior of smartphone users. Firstly, the sensor data and touch-screen data of the smart phone users are collected through android programming. Secondly, the eigenvalues of this data are extracted and sent to the server. Thirdly, the Support Vector… More >

Yalan Wang^1,2, Yuling Chen^1,*, Haseeb Ahmad³, Zhanhong Wei⁴

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.59, No.2, pp. 635-648, 2019, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2019.05251

Abstract To ensure the security during the communication, we often adopt different ways to encrypt the messages to resist various attacks. However, with the computing power improving, the existing encryption and authentication schemes are being faced with big challenges. We take the message authentication as an example into a careful consideration. Then, we proposed a new message authentication scheme with the Advanced Encryption Standard as the encryption function and the new quantum Hash function as the authentication function. Firstly, the Advanced Encryption Standard algorithm is used to encrypt the result of the initial message cascading the corresponding Hash values, which ensures… More >