In the above article, Zhang et al. (2021) proposed a many-to-many authentication and key agreement scheme named SMAKA for secure authentication and key agreement between multiple vehicles and cloud service… Click to show full abstract
In the above article, Zhang et al. (2021) proposed a many-to-many authentication and key agreement scheme named SMAKA for secure authentication and key agreement between multiple vehicles and cloud service providers (CSPs) in a vehicular network. However, we identify a security flaw in the design of Zhang et al. ’s scheme, which allows an attacker to hijack an authentication session between a vehicle and a CSP and impersonate the vehicle to establish a shared key with the CSP with a high chance.
               
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