An Improved Authentication Scheme for Digital Rights Management System

Hussain, S; Zikria, YB; Mallah, GA; Chen, CM; Alshehri, MD; Ishmanov, F; Chaudhry, SA

An Improved Authentication Scheme for Digital Rights Management System

Hussain, S Zikria, YB Mallah, GA Chen, CM Alshehri, MD Ishmanov, F Chaudhry, SA

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Publisher:: WILEY-HINDAWI
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, 2022, 2022
Issue Date:: 2022-01-01

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Field	Value	Language
dc.contributor.author	Hussain, S
dc.contributor.author	Zikria, YB
dc.contributor.author	Mallah, GA
dc.contributor.author	Chen, CM
dc.contributor.author	Alshehri, MD
dc.contributor.author	Ishmanov, F
dc.contributor.author	Chaudhry, SA
dc.contributor.editor	Ravi, V
dc.date.accessioned	2023-03-20T02:06:57Z
dc.date.available	2023-03-20T02:06:57Z
dc.date.issued	2022-01-01
dc.identifier.citation	Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, 2022, 2022
dc.identifier.issn	1530-8669
dc.identifier.issn	1530-8677
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/167688
dc.description.abstract	With the increasing number and popularity of digital content, the management of digital access rights has become an utmost important field. Through digital rights management systems (DRM-S), access to digital contents can be defined and for this, an efficient and secure authentication scheme is required. The DRM authentication schemes can be used to give access or restrict access to digital content. Very recently in 2020, Yu et al. proposed a symmetric hash and xor-based DRM and termed their system to achieve both security and performance efficiency. Contrarily, in this study, we argue that their scheme has several issues including nonresistance to privileged insider and impersonation attacks. Moreover, it is also to show in this study that their scheme has an incorrect authentication phase and due to this incorrectness, the scheme of Yu et al. lacks user scalability. An improved scheme is then proposed to counter the insecurities and incorrectness of the scheme of Yu et al. We prove the security of the proposed scheme using BAN logic. For a clear picture of the security properties, we also provide a textual discussion on the robustness of the proposed scheme. Moreover, due to the usage of symmetric key-based hash functions, the proposed scheme has a comparable performance efficiency.
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	WILEY-HINDAWI
dc.relation.ispartof	Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1155/2022/1041880
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess
dc.rights	Copyright © 2022 Sajid Hussain et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
dc.subject	0805 Distributed Computing, 0906 Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 1005 Communications Technologies
dc.subject.classification	Networking & Telecommunications
dc.title	An Improved Authentication Scheme for Digital Rights Management System
dc.type	Journal Article
utslib.citation.volume	2022
utslib.for	0805 Distributed Computing
utslib.for	0906 Electrical and Electronic Engineering
utslib.for	1005 Communications Technologies
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology/School of Computer Science
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dc.date.updated	2023-03-20T02:06:56Z
pubs.publication-status	Published
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Abstract:

With the increasing number and popularity of digital content, the management of digital access rights has become an utmost important field. Through digital rights management systems (DRM-S), access to digital contents can be defined and for this, an efficient and secure authentication scheme is required. The DRM authentication schemes can be used to give access or restrict access to digital content. Very recently in 2020, Yu et al. proposed a symmetric hash and xor-based DRM and termed their system to achieve both security and performance efficiency. Contrarily, in this study, we argue that their scheme has several issues including nonresistance to privileged insider and impersonation attacks. Moreover, it is also to show in this study that their scheme has an incorrect authentication phase and due to this incorrectness, the scheme of Yu et al. lacks user scalability. An improved scheme is then proposed to counter the insecurities and incorrectness of the scheme of Yu et al. We prove the security of the proposed scheme using BAN logic. For a clear picture of the security properties, we also provide a textual discussion on the robustness of the proposed scheme. Moreover, due to the usage of symmetric key-based hash functions, the proposed scheme has a comparable performance efficiency.

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