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The utilization of internet for managing industrial operations can be widespread adopted if the authentication of the entities are performed and trust is ensured. The traditional schemes with their inherent security issues and other complexities, cannot be directly deployed to resource constrained network devices. Therefore, we have proposed a strong mutual authentication and secret key exchange protocol to address the vulnerabilities of the existing schemes. We have used various cryptography operations such as hashing, ciphering, and so forth, for providing secure mutual authentication and secret key exchange between different entities to restrict unauthorized access. Performance and security analysis clearly demonstrates that the proposed work is energy efficient (computation and communication inexpensive) and more robust against the attacks in comparison to the traditional schemes.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s20185166","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,9,10]],"date-time":"2020-09-10T09:10:09Z","timestamp":1599729009000},"page":"5166","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":32,"title":["MAKE-IT\u2014A Lightweight Mutual Authentication and Key Exchange Protocol for Industrial Internet of Things"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"20","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8667-641X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Karanjeet","family":"Choudhary","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Lovely Professional University, Punjab 144411, India"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0732-1478","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Gurjot Singh","family":"Gaba","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Lovely Professional University, Punjab 144411, India"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1723-5741","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ismail","family":"Butun","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, SE-412 96 Gothenburg, Sweden"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8124-5509","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Pardeep","family":"Kumar","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Computer Science, Swansea University, Swansea, Wales SA1 8EN, UK"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,9,10]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Waidner, M., and Kasper, M. 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