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Internet of Things (IoT) is widely utilized to plenty of domains such as agriculture and meteorology. IoT technologies can be applied to drones to form Internet of Drones (IoD). In IoD, drones can help the government to gather or transmit data for disaster relief, investigation of terrain, military, fire detection and so on. In order to protect the security of data transmission for IoD, Zhang et al. proposed a lightweight authentication and key agreement scheme by using only XOR operation and one-way hash function to resist known attacks. They claimed that their scheme could effectively reduce communication and computation cost. After analyzing their scheme, we find that their scheme is vulnerable to compromised user anonymity, denial-of-service attack and replay attack. In this paper, how these found security flaws threaten Zhang et al.’s scheme is shown in detail.
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This work was supported in part by Ministry of Science and Technology under the Grants MOST 109-2410-H-025-013-, MOST 110-2221-E-025-012-, MOST 108-2221-E-034-006-MY2, and MOST 110-2221-E-034-005-MY2.
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Chang, YF., Huang, SJ., Chen, GX., Tai, WL. (2023). A Critique of a Lightweight Authentication and Key Agreement Scheme for Internet of Drones. In: Tsihrintzis, G.A., Wang, SJ., Lin, IC. (eds) 2021 International Conference on Security and Information Technologies with AI, Internet Computing and Big-data Applications. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 314. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05491-4_34
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