Energy oriented vulnerability analysis on authentication protocols for CPS
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
1-1-2014
Abstract
In this work we compute the energy generated by modular exponentiation, a widely used powerful tool in password authentication protocols for cyber physical systems. We observe modular exponentiation to be an expensive operation in terms of energy consumption in addition to be known to be computationally intensive. We then analyze the security and energy consumption an advanced smart card based password authentication protocol for cyber physical systems, that use modular exponentiation. We devise a generic cryptanalysis method on the protocol, in which the attacker exploits the energy and computational intensive nature of modular exponentiation to a perform denial of service (DoS) attack. We also show other similar protocols to be vulnerable to this attack. We then suggest methods to prevent this attack. © 2014 IEEE.
Publication Title
Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems, DCOSS 2014
First Page
367
Last Page
371
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
10.1109/DCOSS.2014.52
ISBN
9781479946198
Citation Information
Harish, & Roy, S. (2014). Energy Oriented Vulnerability Analysis on Authentication Protocols for CPS. 2014 IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems, 367–371. https://doi.org/10.1109/DCOSS.2014.52