Title: An enhanced biometrics-based remote user authentication scheme using mobile devices

Authors: R. Madhusudhan; R.C. Mittal

Addresses: Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee 247667, India; Department of M.A.C.S, National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal 575025, India. ' Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee 247667, India

Abstract: Remote user authentication is a mechanism, in which the remote server verifies the legitimacy of a user over an insecure communication channel. Recently, Wang and Li proposed a fingerprint-based remote user authentication scheme using mobile devices. We demonstrate that their scheme is vulnerable and susceptible to many attacks and has some practical pitfalls. To solve these problems, we propose an efficient fingerprint-based remote user authentication scheme using mobile devices. Proposed scheme not only overcomes all the drawbacks and problems of Wang and Li's scheme, but also provides secure and user-friendly fingerprint-based remote user authentication over insecure networks.

Keywords: smart cards; user authentication; passwords; mobile devices; biometrics; remote authentication; security; fingerprints; fingerprint authentication; insecure networks.

DOI: 10.1504/IJCISTUDIES.2012.050360

International Journal of Computational Intelligence Studies, 2012 Vol.1 No.4, pp.333 - 348

Received: 08 Mar 2012
Accepted: 01 May 2012
Published online: 28 Aug 2014 *

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