Smart Contract-Based Cross-Domain Authentication and Key Agreement System for Heterogeneous Wireless Networks

Guangsong Li,Siqi Lu,Yang Wang,Bin Zhang

doi:10.1155/2020/2964562

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Abstract

Nowadays, it is still a major challenge to design a secure cross-domain authentication protocol for heterogeneous wireless networks with different security parameters. As a new technology, blockchain has attracted people’s attention because of its tamper-proof and decentralized characteristics. In this paper, we propose a cross-domain authentication and key agreement system based on smart contract of blockchains. Public keys of the nodes are managed using the smart contracts, and the system parameters are confirmed by contract query. On this basis, a cross-domain authentication and key agreement protocol is designed. In this protocol, roaming users can select temporary authentication parameters according to the system parameters of the roaming domain to complete authentication and key agreement, and users are anonymous in the process. Security of the protocol is demonstrated under the CK model, and two formal analysis tools are used to further analyze the protocol. Since the protocol does not have complex cryptographic operations and certificate verification, it has lower computational and communication overhead.

Highlights

With the development of the Internet and the increase of wireless access devices such as smartphones, laptops, and iPads, people demand more network resources and better network services
In 2016, Lewison proposed a certificate-based PKI authentication system using the Ethereum platform [25], which solved the problem of excessive traffic of the traditional PKI certificate management and the use of certificate revocation list (CRL) and online certificate status protocol (OCSP)
At the point of submission, the authors may provide all figures embedded within the manuscript at a convenient break near Suppose an access point (AP) node AP in domain U will register to its CAU

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Introduction

With the development of the Internet and the increase of wireless access devices such as smartphones, laptops, and iPads, people demand more network resources and better network services. To ensure secure communication over the insecure public network, Qi and Chen propose a privacy-preserving biometrics-based authenticated key agreement scheme using ECC, which has perfect user experience in changing password without interacting with the server [19]. In 2016, Lewison proposed a certificate-based PKI authentication system using the Ethereum platform [25], which solved the problem of excessive traffic of the traditional PKI certificate management and the use of certificate revocation list (CRL) and online certificate status protocol (OCSP) We refer to these existing schemes to design distributed PKI for wireless networks based on smart contracts. Wang et al [26] proposed a blockchain-based cross-domain authentication model named BlockCAM to enable users to access shared resources across domains in a secure way.

Preliminaries

Provable Security eory

Smart Contract-Based Cross-Domain Authentication and Key Agreement System

Security Analysis

Analysis of Other Security Attributes

Performance Evaluation