PAKIT: Proactive Authentication and Key Agreement Protocol for Internet of Things

Abstract

Internet of Things (IoT) holds great promise for many life-improving applications like health-care systems. In IoT systems, providing secure authentication and key agreement scheme that considers compromised entities is an important issue. State-of-the-arts tackle this problem, but they fail to address compromised entity attack and have high computation cost. Motivated by these considerations, in this paper, we propose an energy-efficient proactive authentication and key agreement scheme called PAKIT for IoT systems. The security of PAKIT scheme is validated using the ProVerif tool. Moreover, the efficiency of PAKIT is compared with the predecessor schemes proposed for IoT systems. The results of the experiments show that PAKIT is efficient and suitable for real-world IoT applications by utilizing lightweight functions, such as hash and XOR. © 2019 IEEE.