Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
acceptedVersion
Publication Date
7-2006
Abstract
Privacy and security are two important but seemingly contradictory objectives in a pervasive computing environment (PCE). On one hand, service providers want to authenticate legitimate users and make sure they are accessing their authorized services in a legal way. On the other hand, users want to maintain the necessary privacy without being tracked down for wherever they are and whatever they are doing. In this paper, a novel privacy preserving authentication and access control scheme to secure the interactions between mobile users and services in PCEs is proposed. The proposed scheme seamlessly integrates two underlying cryptographic primitives, namely blind signature and hash chain, into a highly flexible and lightweight authentication and key establishment protocol. The scheme provides explicit mutual authentication between a user and a service while allowing the user to anonymously interact with the service. Differentiated service access control is also enabled in the proposed scheme by classifying mobile users into different service groups. The correctness of the proposed authentication and key establishment protocol is formally verified based on Burrows-Abadi-Needham logic
Keywords
access control scheme, blind signature, cryptographic primitives, differentiated service, hash chain, key establishment protocol, lightweight authentication, mobile users, pervasive computing environment, privacy preserving authentication
Discipline
Information Security
Publication
IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
Volume
55
Issue
4
First Page
1373
Last Page
1384
ISSN
0018-9545
Identifier
10.1109/TVT.2006.877704
Publisher
IEEE
Citation
REN, K.; Lou, Wenjing; KIM, K.; and DENG, Robert H..
A Novel Privacy Preserving Authentication and Access Control Scheme for Pervasive Computing Environments. (2006). IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. 55, (4), 1373-1384.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/1197
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Additional URL
http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TVT.2006.877704