Title: Robust dynamic ID-based remote user authentication scheme using smart cards

Authors: Xiong Li; Jianwei Niu; Yazhi Liu; Junguo Liao; Wei Liang

Addresses: School of Computer Science and Engineering, Hunan University of Science and Technology, Xiangtan 411201, China; State Key Laboratory of Software Development Environment, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China ' State Key Laboratory of Software Development Environment, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China ' College of Information Engineering, Hebei United University, Tangshan 063000, China ' School of Computer Science and Engineering, Hunan University of Science and Technology, Xiangtan 411201, China ' School of Computer Science and Engineering, Hunan University of Science and Technology, Xiangtan 411201, China

Abstract: Smart card-based password authentication scheme is one of the most simple and efficient method to identify the legitimacy of a user via an insecure channel. To protect the user from tracking by the attacker, many dynamic ID-based user authentication schemes have been proposed. Recently, Chen et al. proposed an efficient and secure dynamic ID-based authentication scheme using smart cards. However, we find that Chen et al.'s scheme cannot really protect user's anonymity and forward secrecy. Besides, their scheme is inefficient in the authentication phase and cannot resist stolen smart card attack. In this paper, we propose a robust dynamic ID-based user authentication scheme using smart cards to cover the above weaknesses, the proposed scheme can really protect the user's anonymity and is more secure comparing with other related schemes.

Keywords: remote user authentication; dynamic identity; smart cards; passwords; password authentication; user anonymity; security.

DOI: 10.1504/IJAHUC.2014.066423

International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing, 2014 Vol.17 No.4, pp.254 - 264

Received: 26 Apr 2013
Accepted: 10 Sep 2013
Published online: 19 Dec 2014 *

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