CSECMAS: An Efficient and Secure Certificate Signing Based Elliptic Curve Multiple Authentication Scheme for Drone Communication Networks

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

- It is recommended to explain in more detail (in the results section), the effect of the proposal on the energy consumption of drones, the speed of the drones and the delay generated by the calculations made.
- How does the number of drones affect the custer? - Can the system withstand simultaneous attacks? - It is suggested that in the results section the most appropriate values ​​of some variables such as the number of nodes, the maximum possible delay, the energy consumption, be mentioned so that a proposal like this works correctly. - It is suggested to expand the conclusions in terms of the variables analyzed and mention the problems that remain open.

 

Author Response

Dear Editors and Reviewers:

Thank you for your letter and for the reviewers' comments concerning our manuscript entitled " CSECMAS：An Efficient and secure certificate signing based Elliptic Curve multiple authentication scheme for Drone communication networks" (Manuscript ID: applsci-1873475). Those comments are valuable and helpful for revising and improving our paper and the critical guiding significance to our research. We have studied the comments carefully and have made a correction which we hope meets with approval. We tried our best to improve the manuscript and make some changes according to your suggestions. These changes are marked using the “Track Changes” function and marked in highlighted style, which will not influence the content and framework of the manuscript.

We appreciate for editors' and reviewers' warm work earnestly and hope that the correction will meet with approval. The modifications in the paper and the responses to the reviewers' comments are as follows:

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Reviewer 2 Report

Authors have proposed certificate signing method based on Elliptic Curve multiple authentication scheme for Drone communication networks.

The article is very well written and security analysis is good. But, if Certificate Authority (CA) shown in the system model gets compromised, then the whole point of proposed secure model fails. How do authors consider this model? Justify.

Found ambiguity in the statement “Receiving statement: cb? eval (send) g1, g2, eval (K). The function eval () is used to judge” of page 16. Please clarify the ? meaning in it.

Author Response

Dear Editors and Reviewers:

Thank you for your letter and for the reviewers' comments concerning our manuscript entitled " CSECMAS：An Efficient and secure certificate signing based Elliptic Curve multiple authentication scheme for Drone communication networks" (Manuscript ID: applsci-1873475).  Those comments are valuable and helpful for revising and improving our paper and the critical guiding significance to our research. We have studied the comments carefully and have made a correction which we hope meets with approval. We tried our best to improve the manuscript and make some changes according to your suggestions. These changes are marked using the “Track Changes” function and marked in highlighted style, which will not influence the content and framework of the manuscript.

We appreciate for editors' and reviewers' warm work earnestly and hope that the correction will meet with approval. The modifications in the paper and the responses to the reviewers' comments are as follows:

Author Response File: Author Response.docx