Multiple Authentication Schemes Research Articles

CSECMAS: An Efficient and Secure Certificate Signing Based Elliptic Curve Multiple Authentication Scheme for Drone Communication Networks

With the rapid development of communication technology, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been widely used in the military, rescue, agricultural and other fields. The security and privacy issues are one of the biggest challenges for UAV communications. In this paper, we propose a certificate signing based on an Elliptic Curve multiple authentication scheme (CSECMAS). The scheme employs multiple authentication tools to ensure the legitimacy of the identity and the integrity of the information. We treat multiple UAVs as a cluster, and after establishing a secure session between the ground control station (GCS) and the UAV, we use the fitness function to select one node from them as the key node. Mutual authentication between the UAVs through the key node establishes secure conversations while increasing the security and resistance to destruction of the entire communication network. The proposed protocol is formally analyzed and verified by using the model-checking tool SPIN. The informal analysis shows that the protocol can resist various attacks, such as man-in-the-middle attacks, replay attacks, and DoS attacks. The performance analysis shows that the proposed protocol is superior compared to other related protocols.

User-centred authentication feature framework

Purpose – This paper aims to propose that more useful novel schemes could develop from a more principled examination and application of promising authentication features. Text passwords persist despite several decades of evidence of their security and usability challenges. It seems extremely unlikely that a single scheme will globally replace text passwords, suggesting that a diverse ecosystem of multiple authentication schemes designed for specific environments is needed. Authentication scheme research has thus far proceeded in an unstructured manner. Design/methodology/approach – This paper presents the User-Centred Authentication Feature Framework, a conceptual framework that classifies the various features that knowledge-based authentication schemes may support. This framework can used by researchers when designing, comparing and innovating authentication schemes, as well as administrators and users, who can use the framework to identify desirable features in schemes available for selection. Findings – This paper illustrates how the framework can be used by demonstrating its applicability to several authentication schemes, and by briefly discussing the development and user testing of two framework-inspired schemes: Persuasive Text Passwords and Cued Gaze-Points. Originality/value – This framework is intended to support the increasingly diverse ecosystem of authentication schemes by providing authentication researchers, professionals and users with the increased ability to design, develop and select authentication schemes better suited for particular applications, environments and contexts.

Bounds on the probability of deception in multiple authentication

The frequently assumed freshness constraint on the source states in multiple authentication schemes is not necessary if one allows the encoding rule to change between subsequent transmissions. In the paper it is shown that the main existing lower bounds on the probabilities of successful attack on multiple authentication schemes also hold for this new setup. Furthermore, Stinson's (1988) bound for the substitution attack is strengthened. >