Security Enhanced CLS and CL-AS Scheme Without Pairings for VANETs

While vehicle ad-hoc networks (VANETs) have many advantages, they also present privacy and security concerns. Certificate management issues have been seen in traditional public key infrastructure-based privacy-preserving authentication schemes, while key escrow problem exists in identity-based priva...

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Main Authors: Anjali Bansal, Saru Kumari, Nishant Doshi, Mohammed Amoon, Marko Holbl
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Published: IEEE 2025-01-01
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10908241/
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description While vehicle ad-hoc networks (VANETs) have many advantages, they also present privacy and security concerns. Certificate management issues have been seen in traditional public key infrastructure-based privacy-preserving authentication schemes, while key escrow problem exists in identity-based privacy-preserving authentication techniques. Also, existing cryptographic techniques rely heavily on assumptions about tamper-proof equipment to ensure their security. A proposal has been made for a certificateless aggregate signature system for VANETs addressing these issues and was proved provably unforgeable against collusion attack. However, we found that the proposed technique was insecure and could not withstand collusion assault. Therefore, this paper presents an improved and secure certificateless aggregate signature technique for VANETs. We also illustrate the security & performance evaluation of our presented technique, and based upon the hardness assumption of the elliptic curve discrete logarithm problem, we have shown that the technique is safe against existential forgery on adaptive chosen message attack in the random oracle model. Also, the presented technique has better efficiency compared to some recent existing authentication techniques.
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spelling doaj-art-4c84b3d79b2145f58ee6cfd2b2f90cbc2025-08-20T02:47:38ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362025-01-0113425084252010.1109/ACCESS.2025.354669910908241Security Enhanced CLS and CL-AS Scheme Without Pairings for VANETsAnjali Bansal0https://orcid.org/0009-0006-1369-0671Saru Kumari1https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4929-5383Nishant Doshi2https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3443-7561Mohammed Amoon3https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3212-8098Marko Holbl4https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9414-3189Department of Mathematics, Chaudhary Charan Singh University, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, IndiaDepartment of Mathematics, Chaudhary Charan Singh University, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, IndiaDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering, School of Technology, Pandit Deendayal Energy University, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, IndiaDepartment of Computer Science, Community College, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi ArabiaFaculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Maribor, Maribor, SloveniaWhile vehicle ad-hoc networks (VANETs) have many advantages, they also present privacy and security concerns. Certificate management issues have been seen in traditional public key infrastructure-based privacy-preserving authentication schemes, while key escrow problem exists in identity-based privacy-preserving authentication techniques. Also, existing cryptographic techniques rely heavily on assumptions about tamper-proof equipment to ensure their security. A proposal has been made for a certificateless aggregate signature system for VANETs addressing these issues and was proved provably unforgeable against collusion attack. However, we found that the proposed technique was insecure and could not withstand collusion assault. Therefore, this paper presents an improved and secure certificateless aggregate signature technique for VANETs. We also illustrate the security & performance evaluation of our presented technique, and based upon the hardness assumption of the elliptic curve discrete logarithm problem, we have shown that the technique is safe against existential forgery on adaptive chosen message attack in the random oracle model. Also, the presented technique has better efficiency compared to some recent existing authentication techniques.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10908241/Aggregate signaturecertificateless public key cryptographyelliptic curve cryptosystemvehicular ad hoc networks
spellingShingle Anjali Bansal
Saru Kumari
Nishant Doshi
Mohammed Amoon
Marko Holbl
Security Enhanced CLS and CL-AS Scheme Without Pairings for VANETs
IEEE Access
Aggregate signature
certificateless public key cryptography
elliptic curve cryptosystem
vehicular ad hoc networks
title Security Enhanced CLS and CL-AS Scheme Without Pairings for VANETs
title_full Security Enhanced CLS and CL-AS Scheme Without Pairings for VANETs
title_fullStr Security Enhanced CLS and CL-AS Scheme Without Pairings for VANETs
title_full_unstemmed Security Enhanced CLS and CL-AS Scheme Without Pairings for VANETs
title_short Security Enhanced CLS and CL-AS Scheme Without Pairings for VANETs
title_sort security enhanced cls and cl as scheme without pairings for vanets
topic Aggregate signature
certificateless public key cryptography
elliptic curve cryptosystem
vehicular ad hoc networks
url https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10908241/
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