Anonymous authentication and key exchange protocol in intelligent vehicle networks
Intelligent vehicular ad hoc networks(VANETs)are the core of intelligent transportation systems,in recent years,it has received increasing attentions from the academic community.However,due to the openness and fragility,VANETs are confronted with many security problems.In order to solve the problems such as two-way authentication between intelligent vehicles and nearby RSUs,ex-change of session keys and anonymity of intelligent vehicles,this paper proposes an anonymous authen-tication and key exchange protocol in the intelligent vehicle networks.In the protocol,an identity-based digital signature algorithm is designed to enable the intelligent vehicle to send authentication information to the nearby road side unit(RSU)in a completely anonymous manner.After the RSU validates the au-thentication information,a message authentication code will be calculated and sent to the intelligent ve-hicle as the response to realize two-way authentication.In addition,during the anonymous authentica-tion process,the session key can be negotiated for subsequent secure communication.The protocol is designed based on the identity cryptosystem,which does not need complex certificate management.The performance evaluation shows that this protocol can be effectively deployed in intelligent vehicle applica-tion scenarios with highly sensitive information.
intelligent vehicular ad hoc networksidentity anonymitykey exchangetwo-way authen-ticationmessage authentication code