On the Security of the Novel Authentication Scheme for UAV-Ground Station and UAV-UAV Communication

Mustapha Benssalah, Karim Drouiche

2023

Abstract

With the unexpected increase in the number of commercialized and marketed UAVs in the last few years, both in the civilian and military fields, the security and privacy remain the exceedingly urgent problem of national security for many countries over the world. In fact, it is imperative that drone security and privacy issues have to be properly and utterly addressed by drone manufacturers as well as commercial operators, via implementing efficient authentication mechanisms executed between the system entities before any exchange of sensitive information. In this paper, we examine in depth the security of the PUF-based authentication scheme published most recently by Alladi et al. in one of the renowned international scientific journals ”IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology”. Our results indicate that the claimed security performance of this scheme has been overestimated. We show that Alladi et al.’s scheme is prone to the secret session key disclosure attack. We demonstrate that the attacker can easily reveal the shared secret and decrypt all the exchanged messages for both UAV-Ground Station (GS) and UAV-UAV authentication phases. To mitigate the revealed issues, some possible improvements are suggested for this scheme. Further, via formal security analysis, using Random Oracle, we show that Alladi et al.’s improved IoD scheme could deliver all the merits of the original scheme and can prevent the aforementioned vulnerabilities.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Benssalah M. and Drouiche K. (2023). On the Security of the Novel Authentication Scheme for UAV-Ground Station and UAV-UAV Communication. In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Security and Cryptography - Volume 1: SECRYPT; ISBN 978-989-758-666-8, SciTePress, pages 361-368. DOI: 10.5220/0012077400003555

in Bibtex Style

@conference{secrypt23,
author={Mustapha Benssalah and Karim Drouiche},
title={On the Security of the Novel Authentication Scheme for UAV-Ground Station and UAV-UAV Communication},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Security and Cryptography - Volume 1: SECRYPT},
year={2023},
pages={361-368},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0012077400003555},
isbn={978-989-758-666-8},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Security and Cryptography - Volume 1: SECRYPT
TI - On the Security of the Novel Authentication Scheme for UAV-Ground Station and UAV-UAV Communication
SN - 978-989-758-666-8
AU - Benssalah M.
AU - Drouiche K.
PY - 2023
SP - 361
EP - 368
DO - 10.5220/0012077400003555
PB - SciTePress