Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
2026 5th International Informatics and Software Engineering Conference (IISEC), Ankara, Türkiye, 5 - 06 Şubat 2026, ss.485-490, (Tam Metin Bildiri)
In this paper, a lattice-based lightweight authentication protocol is proposed for resource-constrained devices. The constructed protocol provides post-quantum security by relying on the hardness of module learning with errors (MLWE) assumption over lattices. Physical unclonable function (PUF), message authentication code (MAC), and exclusive or (XOR) operations are used to satisfy lightweight considerations. Informal security analysis shows that the proposed scheme provides integrity, confidentiality, anonymity, mutual authentication, and replay attack resistance. For performance evaluations based on resource-limited environments, two different authentication scenarios are constructed on the ESP32 platform, and analyses are presented in terms of running time, communication cost, and CPU cycles.