LV2PA: A Lightweight Verification with Privacy-Preserving Authentication for Vehicular Communications
Keywords:
VANETs, VANET, CRT, Mutual authentication, Bloom filterAbstract
Security and privacy must be taken into account for vehicular ad-hoc networks (VANETs) due to the fact that broadcasting occurs through an open communication channel. This work offers a Lightweight Verification with Privacy-Preserving Authentication (LV2PA) approach for vehicular communications to overcome these challenges. To satisfy security and privacy requirements, the proposed LV2PA approach employs not only the cryptographic hash function, but also a Bloom filter and the Chinese remainder theorem. During the mutual authentication of the LV2PA scheme, only the first roadside unit (RSU) and on-board unit are required to communicate with a trusted authority (TA) due to the changeover use, however the other RSUs in vehicular communications do not require TA communication. Consequently, bottleneck problems for the TA are avoided. In addition, the RSU updates the shared group key whenever a vehicle joins or departs the group; hence, the proposed LV2PA provides complete forward secrecy and backward secrecy for vehicular communications. The formal (Burrows–Abadi–Needham (BAN) logic) and informal security analyses demonstrate that the proposed LV2PA scheme is legitimate and meets the security and privacy requirements, respectively. In terms of computing and communication expenses, the performance evaluation of the proposed LV2PA scheme has advantageously low overhead and low latency compared to state-of-the-art schemes
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