An improved remote user authentication scheme with key agreement

In distributed systems, user authentication schemes based on password and smart card are widely used to ensure only authorized access to the protected services. Recently, Chang et al. presented an untraceable dynamic-identity-based user authentication scheme with verifiable-password-update. In this research, we illustrate that Chang et al.’s scheme violates the purpose of dynamic-identity contrary to authors’ claim. We show that once the smart card of an arbitrary user is lost, passwords of all registered users are at risk. Using information from an arbitrary smart card, an adversary can impersonate any user of the system. In addition, its password change phase has loopholes and is misguiding. The scheme has no provision for session key agreement and the smart card lacks any verification mechanism. Then we come-up with an improved remote user authentication scheme with the session key agreement, and show its robustness over related schemes.     

An improved dynamic ID-based remote user authentication with key agreement scheme

In 2009, Wang et al. presented a dynamic ID-based remote user authentication scheme and claimed that their scheme was more efficient and secure. In this paper, we point out that their scheme is not secure against impersonation attacks launched by any adversary at anytime and could leak some key information to legal users, who can launch an off-line guessing attack. If the adversary could get the secret information stored in the smart cards someway, their scheme will be completely broken down. In addition, their scheme does not provide anonymity for the users, and lacks the functionalities of revocation, key exchange and secret renew for users and servers. Furthermore, we propose a more secure and robust scheme, which does not only cover all the above security flaws and weaknesses, but also provides more functionalities.     

An efficient mutual authentication and key agreement scheme without password for wireless sensor networks

The Journal of Supercomputing - Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are usually deployed in hostile or unattended areas, and users need to obtain real-time data from WSNs. The data collected by sensor...     

An efficient mutual authentication and key agreement protocol preserving user anonymity in mobile networks

We address the problem of mutual authentication and key agreement with user anonymity for mobile networks. Recently, Lee et al. proposed such a scheme, which is claimed to be a slight modification of, but a security enhancement on Zhu et al.’s scheme based on the smart card. In this paper, however, we reveal that both schemes still suffer from certain weaknesses which have been previously overlooked, and thus are far from the desired security. We then propose a new protocol which is immune to various known types of attacks. Analysis shows that, while achieving identity anonymity, key agreement fairness, and user friendliness, our scheme is still cost-efficient for a general mobile node.     

基于ECC的双向认证及密钥协商方案的分析与改进

针对当前移动通信中认证和密钥协商存在的问题和已有的解决方案,提出了一种改进的基于椭圆曲线密码体制ECC的密钥协商及双向认证方案.该方案用于移动网络中任意用户之间,或用户与网络之间进行双向认证和密钥的安全协商.采用ECC技术,能够在更小的密钥量下提供更大的安全性,减少对带宽的需求,降低通信双方的计算负担和存储要求,适用于无线网络环境.     

基于ECC的密钥协商及双向认证方案

针对当前移动通信系统中认证和密钥协商协议存在的安全缺陷,提出一种基于椭圆曲线密码体制的双向认证和密钥协商方案,用于移动网络中任意用户之间,或用户与网络之间进行双向认证和会话密钥的安全协商.该方案采用ECC技术,能够在更小的密钥量下提供更大的安全性,减少对带宽的需求,降低移动终端的计算负担和存储要求.     

An efficient mutual authentication scheme for IoT systems

The Journal of Supercomputing - The resource-constrained nature of Internet of Things (IoT) devices and their diversity and abundancy represent a major challenge for the development of efficient...     

基于口令的远程身份认证及密钥协商协议

基于口令的身份认证协议是研究的热点。分析了一个低开销的基于随机数的远程身份认证协议的安全性,指出了该协议的安全缺陷。构造了一个基于随机数和Hash函数、使用智能卡的远程身份认证和密钥协商协议：PUAKP协议。该协议使用随机数,避免了使用时戳带来的重放攻击的潜在风险。该协议允许用户自主选择和更改口令,实现了双向认证,有较小的计算开销;能够抵御中间人攻击;具有口令错误敏感性、口令的主机非透明性和强安全修复性;生成的会话密钥具有新鲜性、机密性、已知密钥安全性和前向安全性。     

An ID-based remote mutual authentication with key agreement scheme for mobile devices on elliptic curve cryptosystem

Recently, remote user authentication schemes are implemented on elliptic curve cryptosystem (ECC) to reduce the computation loads for mobile devices. However, most remote user authentication schemes on ECC are based on public-key cryptosystem, in which the public key in the system requires the associated certificate to prove its validity. Thus, the user needs to perform additional computations to verify the certificate in these schemes. In addition, we find these schemes do not provide mutual authentication or a session key agreement between the user and the remote server. Therefore, we propose an ID-based remote mutual authentication with key agreement scheme on ECC in this paper. Based upon the ID-based concept, the proposed scheme does not require public keys for users such that the additional computations for certificates can be reduced. Moreover, the proposed scheme not only provides mutual authentication but also supports a session key agreement between the user and the server. Compared with the related works, the proposed scheme is more efficient and practical for mobile devices.     

An anonymous and secure authentication and key agreement scheme for session initiation protocol

Multimedia Tools and Applications - In 2014, Arshad and Nikooghadam proposed an authentication and key agreement scheme for SIP to conquer the existing defects in Irshad et al.’s scheme. They...     

An efficient and secure multi-server authentication scheme with key agreement

Remote user authentication is used to validate the legitimacy of a remote log-in user. Due to the rapid growth of computer networks, many network environments have been becoming multi-server based. Recently, much research has been focused on proposing remote password authentication schemes based on smart cards for securing multi-server environments. Each of these schemes used either a nonce or a timestamp technique to prevent the replay attack. However, using the nonce technique to withstand the replay attack is potentially susceptible to the man-in-the-middle attack. Alternatively, when employing the timestamp method to secure remote password authentication, it will require the cost of implementing clock synchronization. In order to solve the above two issues, this paper proposes a self-verified timestamp technique to help the smart-card-based authentication scheme not only effectively achieve password-authenticated key agreement but also avoid the difficulty of implementing clock synchronization in multi-server environments. A secure authenticated key agreement should accomplish both mutual authentication and session key establishment. Therefore, in this paper we further give the formal proof on the execution of the proposed authenticated key agreement scheme.     

A user friendly mutual authentication and key agreement scheme for wireless sensor networks using chaotic maps

Spread of wireless network technology has opened new doors to utilize sensor technology in various areas via Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). Many authentication protocols for among the service seeker users, sensing component sensor nodes (SNs) and the service provider base-station or gateway node (GWN) are available to realize services from WSNs efficiently and without any fear of deceit. Recently, Li et al. and He et al. independently proposed mutual authentication and key agreement schemes for WSNs. We find that both the schemes achieve mutual authentication, establish session key and resist many known attacks but still have security weaknesses. We show the applicability of stolen verifier, user impersonation, password guessing and smart card loss attacks on Li et al.’s scheme. Although their scheme employs the feature of dynamic identity, an attacker can reveal and guess the identity of a registered user. We demonstrate the susceptibility of He et al.’s scheme to password guessing attack. In both the schemes, the security of the session key established between user and SNs is imperfect due to lack of forward secrecy and session-specific temporary information leakage attack. In addition both the schemes impose extra computational load on resource scanty sensor-nodes and are not user friendly due to absence of user anonymity and lack of password change facility. To handle these drawbacks, we design a mutual authentication and key agreement scheme for WSN using chaotic maps. To the best of our knowledge, we are the first to propose an authentication scheme for WSN based on chaotic maps. We show the superiority of the proposed scheme over its predecessor schemes by means of detailed security analysis and comparative evaluation. We also formally analyze our scheme using BAN logic.     

基于智能卡的远程用户匿名身份认证和密钥协商方案

分析了Li-Niu等(LI X, NIU J W, KHAN M K, et al. An enhanced smart card based remote user password authentication scheme［J］. Journal of Network and Computer Applications, 2013, 36(5):1365-1371.)基于智能卡的远程用户登录认证方案,指出了方案中存在的安全性问题,并提出了改进方案。新方案利用一种自认证的时间戳技术,与对称加密技术相结合,解决了多数智能卡方案中存在的时钟同步问题。与Li-Niu方案相比,新方案不仅可以提供用户的匿名登录,而且能够抵抗扮演攻击和内部攻击,适用于复杂的网络环境。     

An efficient biometrics-based remote user authentication scheme using smart cards

In this paper, we propose an efficient biometric-based remote user authentication scheme using smart cards, in which the computation cost is relatively low compared with other related schemes. The security of the proposed scheme is based on the one-way hash function, biometrics verification and smart card. Moreover, the proposed scheme enables the user to change their passwords freely and provides mutual authentication between the users and the remote server. In addition, many remote authentication schemes use timestamps to resist replay attacks. Therefore, synchronized clock is required between the user and the remote server. In our scheme, it does not require synchronized clocks between two entities because we use random numbers in place of timestamps.     

A secure and efficient mutual authentication scheme for session initiation protocol

The Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) as the core signaling protocol for multimedia services is receiving much attention. Authentication is becoming increasingly crucial issue when a user asks to use SIP services. Many authentication schemes for the SIP have been proposed. Very recently, Zhang et al. has presented an authentication scheme for SIP and claimed their scheme could overcome various attacks while maintaining efficiency. In this research, we illustrate that their scheme is susceptible to the insider attack and does not provide proper mutual authentication. We then propose a modified secure mutual authentication scheme to conquer the security flaws in Zhang et al.’s scheme. Through the informal and formal security analyses, we demonstrate that our scheme is resilient possible known attacks including the attacks found in Zhang et al.’s scheme. In addition, the performance analysis shows that our scheme has better efficiency in comparison with other related ECC-based authentication schemes for SIP.     

A more efficient and secure ID-based remote mutual authentication with key agreement scheme for mobile devices on elliptic curve cryptosystem

Recently, Yang and Chang proposed an identity-based remote login scheme using elliptic curve cryptography for the users of mobile devices. We have analyzed the security aspects of the Yang and Chang's scheme and identified some security flaws. Also two improvements of the Yang and Chang's scheme have been proposed recently, however, it has been found that the schemes have similar security flaws as in the Yang and Chang's scheme. In order to remove the security pitfalls of the Yang and Chang and the subsequent schemes, we proposed an enhanced remote user mutual authentication scheme that uses elliptic curve cryptography and identity-based cryptosystem with three-way challenge-response handshake technique. It supports flawless mutual authentication of participants, agreement of session key and the leaked key revocation capability. In addition, the proposed scheme possesses low power consumption, low computation cost and better security attributes. As a result, the proposed scheme seems to be more practical and suitable for mobile users for secure Internet banking, online shopping, online voting, etc.     

一种改进的远程用户身份认证方案

物联网的快速发展给人们的生产生活带来了极大的便利,但是如何保证用户的信息安全是物联网发展中必须解决的一个重要问题。为了解决该问题,必须在增加较低计算量的前提下,提出安全性更高的身份认证协议。对Nikooghadam等人提出的保护用户身份的协议进行了分析,并在此基础上提出了一种改进的远程用户身份认证协议。采用BAN逻辑进行验证,也进行了性能比较与计算效率分析,结果表明,提出的协议在增加较低计算量的前提下具有更高的安全性。     

Cryptanalysis and improvement on two efficient remote user authentication scheme using smart cards

In 2002, Chien et al. proposed an efficient remote authentication scheme using smart cards, in which only few hashing operations are required. Later, Ku et al. gave an improved scheme to repair the security pitfalls found in Chien et al.'s scheme. Also Yoon et al. presented an enhancement on Ku et al.'s scheme. In this paper, we show that both Ku et al.'s scheme and Yoon et al.'s scheme are still vulnerable to the guessing attack, forgery attack and denial of service (DoS) attack. In addition, their schemes lack efficiency when users input wrong passwords. To remedy these flaws, this paper proposes an efficient improvement over Ku et al.'s and Yoon et al.'s schemes with more security. The computation cost, security, and efficiency of the improved scheme are embarking for the real application in the resource-limited environment.     

一种强安全的WSN用户认证及密钥协商方案

针对无线传感器网络双因素用户认证方案中智能卡内敏感信息被破译、公共信道信息传输被侦听引起的匿名性隐患及密码猜测等攻击,在T-M方案的基础上,注册阶段采用哈希加密深度隐藏了用户隐私信息,增强智能卡中元素的抗猜测性;又将网关作为消息中转站提前对用户进行验证,调整了信息传输结构及认证方式,减少节点能耗且加强消息传输的安全防护;同时,在网关端添加写保护用户身份日志表,及时记录用户登录信息,以防资源滥用。理论分析及实验显示了所提方案有效抵御了T-M方案的不足,大大减少了传感节点的通信开销,提供更多的安全防护且具有计费功能。