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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