scholarly journals Secure Multimodal Authentication Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 653-661
Author(s):  
Preetha Shivanna ◽  
Sheela Samudrala Venkatesiah

In the current era, it is necessary to device authorization and authentication techniques to secure resources in information technology. There are several methods to substantiate authorization and authentication. User authentication is essential for authenticating user access control in WSNs. Biometric recognition error, lack of anonymity and vulnerability to attacks, user verification problem, revocation problem and disclosure of session key by the gateway node are some of the security flaws encountered. In this study, a Multimodal Authentication Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN-MAS) is proposed to authenticate legitimate users. The main objective is the fusion of fingerprint and iris biometric features at feature level to enable additional accuracy to verify and match user identity with stored templates. In this paper, multimodal biometric features are used for authentication to improve performance, reduce system error rates to achieve better security in WSN.

2011 ◽  
Vol 21 (01) ◽  
pp. 21-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
CHENG-CHI LEE ◽  
CHUN-TA LI ◽  
SHUN-DER CHEN

Recently, a secure two-factor user authentication scheme for wireless sensor networks (WSN) was proposed by Das. The proposed scheme can resist many logged in users with the same login identity, stolen-verifier, guessing, impersonation and replay threats. In this paper we study the two-factor user authentication scheme for WSN and find that the scheme is insecure against the masquerade attacks. With our masquerade attacks, an attacker can masquerade as any legal user to login the gateway node without knowing the user's password or can masquerade as a gateway node to communicate with the legal user at anytime.


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