An Efficient Mutual Authentication Scheme for Internet of Things Abstract   The Internet of Things (IoT) is developed to facilitate the connections and data sharing among people, devices, and systems. Among the infrastructural IoT techniques, Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) has been used to enable the proliferation and communication in IoT networks. However, the RFID techniques usually suffer from security issues due to the inherent weaknesses of underlying wireless radio communications. One of the main security issues is the authentication vulnerability from the jamming attack. In order to tackle the vulnerabilities of key updating algorithms, this paper therefore proposes an efficient authentication scheme based on the selfadaptive and mutual key updating. Furthermore, we evaluate the performance and applicability of our solution with a thorough simulation by taking into account the energy consumption, authentication failure rate and authentication delay. The feasibility and applicability are demonstrated by implementing the proposed authentication scheme in smart home IoT systems.

An UltraLightweight RFID Mutual Authentication Protocol In some applications of the Internet of Things (IoT), for privacy preserving and authentication of entities, it is necessary to use ultralightweight cryptographic algorithms. In this paper, we propose a new ultralightweight authentication protocol between RFID components, in which only simple operations are used. In this protocol, the server has access to the data gathered by the tag in the same authentication phase through the reader interface, instead of sharing a secret key. The proposed protocol is secure against several attacks, such as replay attacks, denial of service, offline guessing attacks, modification attacks, full disclosure attacks and impersonation attacks, in addition to its practicality when compared to the previously proposed RFID authentication protocols. It also provides anonymity of tags against readers and the other tags involved in the protocol.