Title: Efficient and secure protocol for vehicular navigation systems without pairing

Authors: Radhika Lama

Addresses: Department of Computer Science and Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Durgapur, India

Abstract: Vehicular navigation system significantly enhances road safety, traffic management, and driving experiences. However, this added benefit to the vehicle technology comes with various potential active and passive cryptographic cyber-security risks. We note that the vast majority of current state-of-the-art fails to meet all security requirements. These systems are susceptible to disruptions that could have an adverse impact on their performance due to the lack of reliable security protection. On the other hand, it also comes with a considerably high computational cost due to the usage of pairing. Therefore, a streamlined and secure protocol for vehicular navigation systems that avoids the use of pairing. It comprises lightweight cryptographic primitives, including one-way trapdoor functions, XOR operations, and fuzzy extractor generation and reproduction for biometric keys. These elements greatly contribute to minimising the computational cost of the proposed protocol. The comparative analysis highlights that the proposed protocol offers better security and computational cost efficiency than the state-of-the-art and also eliminates the need for additional storage overhead.

Keywords: security; efficient; vehicle navigation; pairing-less.

DOI: 10.1504/IJAHUC.2024.141965

International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing, 2024 Vol.47 No.2, pp.71 - 88

Received: 03 Jan 2024
Accepted: 08 May 2024
Published online: 03 Oct 2024 *

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