Title: Design and analysis of telemedicine authentication protocol

Authors: Lijuan Zheng; Chunlei Song; Rui Zhang; Baoqing Lv; Yujin Liu; Meng Cui; Lili Meng

Addresses: School of Information Science and Technology, Shijiazhuang Tiedao University, Shijiazhuang, 050043, China; State Key Laboratory of Information Security, Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100093, China ' School of Information Science and Technology, Shijiazhuang Tiedao University, Shijiazhuang, 050043, China ' School of Cyber Security, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China ' School of Information Science and Technology, Shijiazhuang Tiedao University, Shijiazhuang, 050043, China ' School of Information Science and Technology, Shijiazhuang Tiedao University, Shijiazhuang, 050043, China ' School of Information Science and Technology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 050043, China ' Department of Information Science and Engineering Shandong Normal University Jinan, 250358, China

Abstract: In recent years, in order to protect the security of medical privacy data, a large number of telemedicine authentication protocols have been proposed. Some protocols use digital signature methods to achieve two-way authentication among patients, doctors and medical servers, so the execution efficiency of protocol is low. Some protocols fail to achieve patient identity anonymity, the true identity of patient can be analysed by the doctor, so it can't resist security attacks. In order to solve the above problems, a more secure telemedicine authentication protocol is proposed in this paper, which implements two-way identity authentication in the telemedicine authentication model using SHA-1 hash function, time stamp and random number operations. In addition, the introduction of temporary identity can achieve patient identity anonymity and personal medical data security. The protocol has better performance in terms of security, storage and computing overhead, it is more suitable for telemedicine authentication system.

Keywords: telemedicine; privacy protection; authentication protocol; digital signature; identity anonymity; hash function; time stamp; random number; temporary identity; performance analysis.

DOI: 10.1504/IJSNET.2021.118878

International Journal of Sensor Networks, 2021 Vol.37 No.3, pp.198 - 208

Accepted: 30 Oct 2020
Published online: 09 Nov 2021 *

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