A Robust and Scalable One-PUF-to-Many Authentication and Key Agreement Scheme for Mobile Communication Network
Yiteng Wang, Zhe Ren, Wei Wang · 2023
Under the multi-cloud environment of mobile communication networks, unattended terminals would possibly be involved in different tasks. For the network security, terminals should be authenticated by cloud service providers (CSPs) before being involved in various tasks. As a new cryptology primitive, Physical Unclonable Function (PUF) can be served as a trusted root for unattended terminals and provide security property against physical attacks, based on which physical secure authentication can be executed. However, applying the PUF directly to the multi-cloud environment caused the authentication scheme to rely on the storage of the primitive challenge-response pairs, and there was a single point of failure problem. To solve these issues, we propose an authentication and key agreement scheme named RSOPM for secure authentication between terminals and CSPs. Specifically, mutual authentication without the storage of the primitive challenge-response pairs on the cloud is enabled by exploiting the trapdoor collision property of the chameleon hash function. Moreover, the redactable blockchain containing distributed registration information makes a terminal register only once, and then the terminal gains access to the various CSPs. The security properties are discussed to show our scheme resists various attacks. The results of experiments show that the overall delay is reduced by 33 % compared to other multi-cloud authentication schemes.