An Efficient and Privacy Protection Authentication Protocol for Edge Computing

Due to resource constraints, cloud computing has high latency and network instability. Along with it, fog computing and edge computing to alleviate the problems faced by cloud computing. Fog computing and edge computing can process resources in a lower network structure, especially edge computing can be closer to the user layer. To ensure the security of network communication in the edge computing environment, we propose an efficient authentication protocol that protects users’ privacy and can prove to be secure, which truly guarantees anonymity. The security analysis includes informal security analysis, Real-Or-Random (ROR) probability analysis and ProVerif verification tool. The performance analysis includes three aspects: security, computational cost and communication cost. By comparing with relevant protocols, it is proved that the proposed protocol not only has better security, but also ensures higher performance. © 2022 ISSN 2414-8105 (Online).