Yanan Liu1, Lei Cao1,*, Zheng Zhang1,*, Ge Li2, Shuo Qiu1, Suhao Wang1
CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.84, No.3, pp. 4997-5019, 2025, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2025.066836
- 30 July 2025
Abstract As the adoption of Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs) grows, ensuring secure communication between smart vehicles and remote application servers (APPs) has become a critical challenge. While existing solutions focus on various aspects of security, gaps remain in addressing both high security requirements and the resource-constrained nature of VANET environments. This paper proposes an extended-Kerberos protocol that integrates Physical Unclonable Function (PUF) for authentication and key agreement, offering a comprehensive solution to the security challenges in VANETs. The protocol facilitates mutual authentication and secure key agreement between vehicles and APPs, ensuring the confidentiality and integrity of vehicle-to-network… More >