Lightweight Anonymous Authentication and Key Agreement Protocol Based on CoAP of Internet of Things

To solve the problem regarding the lack of a lightweight and secure authentication and key agreement protocol in the Constrained Application Protocol of the Internet of Things environment, we explore the security flaws and applicability problems in the current related research. Then, we propose a new lightweight authentication and key agreement protocol based on the CoAP framework. The scheme adopts shared secret and elliptic curve public key technology, which ensures the anonymity of the communicators and provides strong security and anti-attack capacity. In terms of security analysis, the Dolev-Yao Adversary model and a security model checking analysis method based on CPN Tools are improved, in order to verify the correctness and security of the proposed scheme. Compared with other schemes, regarding communication overhead, computational cost, and security, the proposed scheme provides a robust and comprehensive security guarantee, although it is not the lightest.

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This study addresses the problem of the lack of a lightweight and secure authentication and key agreement protocol in the Internet of Things environment and proposes a new lightweight solution based on the CoAP framework. The proposed scheme ensures the anonymity of the communicators and provides strong security and anti-attack capacity.