Enormous growth in digital electronics technology has paved path for the development of advanced networks, and smart environment is one among them. Smart environment is a network of smart devices connected to provide comfort, security, remote access and many more to end‐users. Devices in smart environments usually collect very sensitive data of the end‐users and disseminate it as required. The privacy of the end‐user has to be ensured in these applications, and security becomes a prime concern. The security system in smart environments has to ensure privacy and need to be more resource‐aware. An efficient authentication mechanism can ensure the privacy of end users and secrecy of the sensitive data; it may avoid unauthorized access of data and resources, ensuring privacy and security. In this paper, we proposed a mechanism for device authentication which enables smart devices to mutually authenticate each other. The proposed mechanism enables smart devices to acquire security credentials from the server and use these credentials to authenticate each other. The mechanism used exclusive OR (XOR), concatenation, one‐way hash, and symmetric key encryption techniques. The security analysis of the mechanism is done and proved that the mechanism is secure. The performance analysis proved that the computational and communications overheads are 8% less than existing mechanisms and storage overhead is also least.

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使用物联网设备的智能环境的简单安全的设备身份验证机制

数字电子技术的飞速发展为高级网络的发展铺平了道路，而智能环境就是其中之一。智能环境是连接的智能设备网络，旨在为最终用户提供舒适性，安全性，远程访问权限以及更多其他功能。智能环境中的设备通常会收集最终用户的非常敏感的数据，并根据需要进行分发。在这些应用程序中，必须确保最终用户的隐私，而安全成为首要问题。智能环境中的安全系统必须确保私密性，并且需要更加了解资源。高效的身份验证机制可以确保最终用户的隐私和敏感数据的保密性；它可以避免未经授权访问数据和资源，从而确保隐私和安全。在本文中，我们提出了一种设备身份验证机制，该机制使智能设备可以相互进行身份验证。所提出的机制使智能设备能够从服务器获取安全凭证，并使用这些凭证相互进行身份验证。该机制使用了异或（XOR），串联，单向哈希和对称密钥加密技术。对该机制进行了安全性分析，证明了该机制的安全性。性能分析证明，计算和通信开销比现有机制少8％，存储开销也最小。该机制使用了异或（XOR），串联，单向哈希和对称密钥加密技术。对该机制进行了安全性分析，证明了该机制的安全性。性能分析证明，计算和通信开销比现有机制少8％，存储开销也最小。该机制使用异或（XOR），串联，单向哈希和对称密钥加密技术。对该机制进行了安全性分析，证明了该机制的安全性。性能分析证明，计算和通信开销比现有机制少8％，存储开销也最小。