PMAKA-IoV: A Physical Unclonable Function (PUF)-Based Multi-Factor Authentication and Key Agreement Protocol for Internet of Vehicles
Ming Yuan, Yuelei Xiao · Information · 2025
With the explosion of vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communications in the internet of vehicles (IoV), it is still very important to ensure secure authentication and efficient key agreement because of the vulnerabilities in the existing protocols such as physical capture attacks, privacy leakage, and low computational efficiency. This paper proposes a physical unclonable function (PUF)-based multi-factor authentication and key agreement protocol tailored for V2I environments, named as PMAKA-IoV. The protocol integrates hardware-based PUFs with biometric features, utilizing fuzzy extractors to mitigate biometric template risks, while employing dynamic pseudonyms and lightweight cryptographic operations to enhance anonymity and reduce overhead. Security analysis demonstrates its resilience against physical capture attacks, replay attacks, man-in-the-middle attacks, and desynchronization attacks, and it is verified by formal verification using the strand space model and the automated Scyther tool. Performance analysis demonstrates that, compared to other related schemes, the PMAKA-IoV protocol maintains lower communication and storage overhead.