PRIVACY PRESERVING USER AUTHENTICATION SCHEME BASED ON SMART CARD


PRIVACY PRESERVING USER AUTHENTICATION SCHEME BASED ON SMART CARD

Beaton Kapito1 , Patrick Ali1 , Levis Eneya1 and Hyunsung Kim1,2

 1Mathematical Sciences Department, University of Malawi, Chancellor College, Zomba, Malawi 

2Department of Cyber Security, Kyungil University, Kyungbuk, Korea

ABSTRACT

One of the most commonly used user authentication mechanisms is two factor authentication based on smart card and password. The core feature of the scheme is to enforce that the user must have the smart card and know the password in order to gain access to server. Recently, Liu et al. proposed a smart card based password authentication scheme and argued that it is secure against insider attack, replay attack and man in the middle attack and provides perfect forward secrecy. In this paper, we show security weaknesses in Liu et al.’s scheme focused on off-line password guessing attack and masquerading attack and it does not provide perfect forward secrecy and anonymity. Accordingly, we propose a privacy preserving user authentication scheme based on smart card, denoted as PUAS, to remedy these security weaknesses and to provide anonymity and perfect forward secrecy. PUAS is more secure with a bit of computational overhead to support several positive properties in security and privacy.

KEYWORDS

User Authentication, Password Authentication, Smart Card, Bilinear Pairing, Privacy





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