SLAP: Secure Lightweight Authentication Protocol for Resource-constrained Devices

Giulio Aliberti, Roberto Di Pietro, Stefano Guarino

2017

Abstract

Motivated by the upcoming Internet of Things, designing light-weight authentication protocols for resource constrained devices is among the main research directions of the last decade. Current solutions in the literature attempt either to improve the computational efficiency of cryptographic authentication schemes, or to build a provably-secure scheme relying on the hardness of a specific mathematical problem. In line with the principles of information-theoretic security, in this paper we present a novel challenge-response protocol, named SLAP, whose authentication tokens only leak limited information about the secret key, while being very efficient to be generated. We do support our proposal with formal combinatorial arguments, further sustained by numeric evaluations, that clarify the impact of system parameters on the security of the protocol, yielding evidence that SLAP allows performing a reasonable number of secure authentication rounds with the same secret key.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Aliberti G., Di Pietro R. and Guarino S. (2017). SLAP: Secure Lightweight Authentication Protocol for Resource-constrained Devices . In Proceedings of the 14th International Joint Conference on e-Business and Telecommunications - Volume 6: SECRYPT, (ICETE 2017) ISBN 978-989-758-259-2, pages 163-174. DOI: 10.5220/0006431101630174

in Bibtex Style

@conference{secrypt17,
author={Giulio Aliberti and Roberto Di Pietro and Stefano Guarino},
title={SLAP: Secure Lightweight Authentication Protocol for Resource-constrained Devices},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 14th International Joint Conference on e-Business and Telecommunications - Volume 6: SECRYPT, (ICETE 2017)},
year={2017},
pages={163-174},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006431101630174},
isbn={978-989-758-259-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 14th International Joint Conference on e-Business and Telecommunications - Volume 6: SECRYPT, (ICETE 2017)
TI - SLAP: Secure Lightweight Authentication Protocol for Resource-constrained Devices
SN - 978-989-758-259-2
AU - Aliberti G.
AU - Di Pietro R.
AU - Guarino S.
PY - 2017
SP - 163
EP - 174
DO - 10.5220/0006431101630174