Title: Efficient and secure password authentication schemes for low-power devices

Authors: Kee-Won Kim, Jun-Cheol Jeon, Kee-Young Yoo

Addresses: Department of Computer Engineering, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea. ' Department of Computer Engineering, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea. ' Department of Computer Engineering, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea

Abstract: In 2003, Lin et al. proposed an improvement on the Optimal Strong-Password Authentication (OSPA) scheme to make the scheme withstand the stolen-verifier attack, using smart card. However, Ku et al. showed that Lin et al.|s scheme is vulnerable to the replay and the denial of service attack. In 2004, Chen et al. proposed a secure SAS-like password authentication schemes. Their schemes can protect a system against replay and denial-of-service attacks. In this paper, we propose two efficient and secure password authentication schemes which are able to withstand replay and denial-of-service attacks. The proposed schemes are more efficient than Chen et al.|s schemes in computation costs. Moreover, the proposed schemes can be implemented on most of target low-power devices such as smart cards and low-power Personal Digital Assistants in wireless networks.

Keywords: password authentication; low-power devices; mutual authentication; wireless networks; sensor networks; replay attack; denial-of-service attack; security; smart cards; PDAs; personal digital assistants.

DOI: 10.1504/IJSNET.2007.012985

International Journal of Sensor Networks, 2007 Vol.2 No.1/2, pp.77 - 81

Published online: 02 Apr 2007 *

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