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Revisiting the “An Improved Remote user Authentication Scheme with Key Agreement”


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1 Institute of information systems and applications, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, Province of China
2 Department of Information Management, Nanhua University, Dalin, Chiayi, Taiwan, Province of China
 

Recently, Kumari et al. pointed out that Chang et al.’s scheme “Untraceable dynamic-identity-based remote user authentication scheme with verifiable password update” has several drawbacks and does not provide any session key agreement. Hence, they proposed an improved remote user authentication scheme with key agreement based on Chang et al. protocol. They claimed that the improved method is secure. However, we found that their improvement still has both anonymity breach and smart card loss password guessing attack which cannot be violated in the ten basic requirements advocated for a secure identity authentication using smart card by Liao et al. Thus, we modify their protocol to encompass these security functionalities which are needed in a user authentication system using smart card.

Keywords

User Authentication, Key Agreement, Cryptanalysis, Smart Card, Password Change, Untraceable, Dynamic Identity, Anonymity, Remote User Authentication.
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Authors

Yalin Chen
Institute of information systems and applications, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, Province of China
Jue-Sam Chou
Institute of information systems and applications, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, Province of China
I-Chiung Liao
Department of Information Management, Nanhua University, Dalin, Chiayi, Taiwan, Province of China

Abstract


Recently, Kumari et al. pointed out that Chang et al.’s scheme “Untraceable dynamic-identity-based remote user authentication scheme with verifiable password update” has several drawbacks and does not provide any session key agreement. Hence, they proposed an improved remote user authentication scheme with key agreement based on Chang et al. protocol. They claimed that the improved method is secure. However, we found that their improvement still has both anonymity breach and smart card loss password guessing attack which cannot be violated in the ten basic requirements advocated for a secure identity authentication using smart card by Liao et al. Thus, we modify their protocol to encompass these security functionalities which are needed in a user authentication system using smart card.

Keywords


User Authentication, Key Agreement, Cryptanalysis, Smart Card, Password Change, Untraceable, Dynamic Identity, Anonymity, Remote User Authentication.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.13005/ojcst11.04.03