Design of efficient anonymous identity authentication protocol for lightweight IoT devices

Abstract

Aiming at the problem that complex security primitives in existing schemes were not suitable for resource-constrained IoT devices, a lightweight efficient anonymous identity authentication protocol for IoT devices was designed based on physical unclonable function (PUF).Through the formal security model and ProVerif tool, it was proved that the protocol satisfies 13 security properties such as information confidentiality, integrity, un-traceability, and forward/backward secrecy.Compared with existing relevant protocols, the computing overhead of the protocol on the device side and the server side is 0.468 ms and 0.072 ms respectively, and the device storage and communication overheads are 256 bit and 896 bit respectively, which is highly suitable for lightweight IoT devices with limited resources.

Keywords

• physical unclonable function;lightweight;anonymity;mutual authentication;Internet of things