Secure biometric-based authentication scheme with smart card revocation/reissue for wireless sensor networks

• Published in: International journal of distributed sensor networks Vol. 12; no. 7; p. 155014771665860
• Main Authors: Park, YoHan, Lee, SungYup, Kim, ChangKyun, Park, YoungHo
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London, England SAGE Publications 01-07-2016; Hindawi - SAGE Publishing
• Subjects: Authentication; Computer information security; Fuzzy; Networks; Remote sensors; Sensors; Smart cards; Wireless networks; revocation; wireless sensor networks; authentication; biometric
• ISSN: 1550-1329; 1550-1477; 1550-1477
• DOI: 10.1177/1550147716658607

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are ad-hoc networks composed primarily of a large number of sensor nodes with limited power, computation, storage and communication capabilities. The issue of securing and authenticating communications in such a network is problematic, and thus an adversary has an opportunity to capture a sensor node directly from the target field and extract all the information from its memory. In 2013, Yoon and Kim proposed an advanced biometric-based user authentication scheme for WSNs. Choi et al. analyzed Yoon and Kim’s scheme and performed a security cryptanalysis in 2016. They demonstrated that Yoon and Kim’s scheme had several security problems, and proposed instead an improved biometric-based user authentication scheme using fuzzy extraction. However, we cryptanalyze Choi et al.’s scheme and demonstrate that their scheme is vulnerable to insider attack and has a problem with smart card revocation/reissue. To overcome these drawbacks, we propose a secure biometric-based authentication scheme in WSNs that is secure against inside adversaries and provides secure and efficient smart card revocation/reissue.