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Anonymous Secure Framework in Connected Smart Home Environments
The smart home is an environment where heterogeneous
electronic devices and appliances are networked
together to provide smart services in an ubiquitous manner to
the individuals. As the homes become smarter, more complex
and technology dependent, the need for an adequate security
mechanism with minimum individual’s intervention is growing.
The recent serious security attacks have shown how the Internetenabled
smart homes can be turned into very dangerous spots for
various ill intentions, and thus lead the privacy concerns for the
individuals. For instance, an eavesdropper is able to derive the
identity of a particular device/appliance via public channels that
can be used to infer in the life pattern of an individual within the
home area network. This paper proposes an anonymous secure
framework (ASF) in connected smart home environments, using
solely lightweight operations. The proposed framework in this
paper provides efficient authentication and key agreement, and
enables devices (identity and data) anonymity and unlinkability.
One-time session key progression regularly renews the session key
for the smart devices and dilutes the risk of using a compromised
session key in the ASF. It is demonstrated that computation
complexity of the proposed framework is low as compared to the
existing schemes, while security has been significantly improved