Ahmad O. Aseeri¹, Sajjad Hussain Chauhdary^2,*, Mohammed Saeed Alkatheiri³, Mohammed A. Alqarni⁴, Yu Zhuang⁵

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.75, No.1, pp. 1901-1918, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.028777

Abstract IoT devices rely on authentication mechanisms to render secure message exchange. During data transmission, scalability, data integrity, and processing time have been considered challenging aspects for a system constituted by IoT devices. The application of physical unclonable functions (PUFs) ensures secure data transmission among the internet of things (IoT) devices in a simplified network with an efficient time-stamped agreement. This paper proposes a secure, lightweight, cost-efficient reinforcement machine learning framework (SLCR-MLF) to achieve decentralization and security, thus enabling scalability, data integrity, and optimized processing time in IoT devices. PUF has been integrated into SLCR-MLF to improve the security of the… More >

Weizheng Wang^1,2, Xingxing Gong¹, Xiangqi Wang³, Gwang-jun Kim^4,*, Fayez Alqahtani⁵, Amr Tolba⁶

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.74, No.3, pp. 6605-6622, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.031617

Abstract The advanced integrated circuits have been widely used in various situations including the Internet of Things, wireless communication, etc. But its manufacturing process exists unreliability, so cryptographic chips must be rigorously tested. Due to scan testing provides high test coverage, it is applied to the testing of cryptographic integrated circuits. However, while providing good controllability and observability, it also provides attackers with a backdoor to steal keys. In the text, a novel protection scheme is put forward to resist scan-based attacks, in which we first use the responses generated by a strong physical unclonable function circuit to solidify fuse-antifuse structures… More >

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

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.72, No.3, pp. 5031-5040, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.027118

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… More >

Zheng Zhang¹, Yanan Liu^{1, *}, Qinyuan Zuo¹, Lein Harn², Shuo Qiu¹, Yuan Cheng¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.64, No.2, pp. 1261-1280, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.010034

Abstract Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) can be seen as kind of hardware oneway functions, who are easily fabricated but difficult to clone, duplicate or predict. Therefore, PUFs with unclonable and unpredictable properties are welcome to be applied in designing lightweight cryptography protocols. In this paper, a Basic Key Distribution Scheme (Basic-KDS) based on PUFs is firstly proposed. Then, by employing different deployment modes, a Random Deployment Key Distribution Scheme (RD-KDS) and a Grouping Deployment Key Distribution Scheme (GD-KDS) are further proposed based on the Basic-KDS for large scale wireless sensor networks. In our proposals, a sensor is not pre-distributed with any… More >