Improvement of a security enhanced one-time two-factor authentication and key agreement scheme

AbstractIn 2010, Hölbl et al. showed that Shieh et al.’s mutual authentication and key agreement scheme is vulnerable to the smart card lost attack, not achieving perfect forward secrecy, and proposed a security enhanced scheme to eliminate these weaknesses. In this paper, we show that Hölbl et al.’s security enhancement is still vulnerable to the smart card lost attacks. In addition, their scheme cannot resist impersonation attacks and parallel session attacks. Seeing that the existing mutual authentication schemes using smart cards are almost vulnerable to the smart card lost attacks, we further propose a new one-time two-factor mutual authentication and key agreement scheme to eliminate these weaknesses

Cryptanalysis and improvement of chen-hsiang-shih's remote user authentication scheme using smart cards

Recently, Chen-Hsiang-Shih proposed a new dynamic ID-based remote user authentication scheme. The authors claimed that their scheme was more secure than previous works. However, this paper demonstrates that theirscheme is still unsecured against different kinds of attacks. In order to enhance the security of the scheme proposed by Chen-Hsiang-Shih, a new scheme is proposed. The scheme achieves the following security goals: without verification table, each user chooses and changes the password freely, each user keeps the password secret, mutual authentication, the scheme establishes a session key after successful authentication, and the scheme maintains the user's anonymity. Security analysis and comparison demonstrate that the proposed scheme is more secure than Das-Saxena-Gulati's scheme, Wang et al.'s scheme and Chen-Hsiang-Shih.Peer ReviewedPostprint (published version

Enhanced three-factor security protocol for consumer USB mass storage devices

The Universal Serial Bus (USB) is an extremely popular interface standard for computer peripheral connections and is widely used in consumer Mass Storage Devices (MSDs). While current consumer USB MSDs provide relatively high transmission speed and are convenient to carry, the use of USB MSDs has been prohibited in many commercial and everyday environments primarily due to security concerns. Security protocols have been previously proposed and a recent approach for the USB MSDs is to utilize multi-factor authentication. This paper proposes significant enhancements to the three-factor control protocol that now makes it secure under many types of attacks including the password guessing attack, the denial-of-service attack, and the replay attack. The proposed solution is presented with a rigorous security analysis and practical computational cost analysis to demonstrate the usefulness of this new security protocol for consumer USB MSDs

Efficient and complete remote authentication scheme with smart cards

99學年度洪文斌升等參考著作[[abstract]]A complete remote authentication scheme should provide the following security properties: (1) mutual authentication, (2) session key exchange, (3) protection of user anonymity, (4) support of immediate revocation capability, (5) low communication and computation cost, (6) resistance to various kinds of attacks, (7) freely choosing and securely changing passwords by users, and (8) without storing password or verification tables in servers. However, none of the existing schemes meets all the requirements. In this paper, along the line of cost effective approach using hash functions for authentication, we propose an efficient and practical remote user authentication scheme with smart cards to support the above complete security properties.[[conferencetype]]國際[[conferencedate]]20080617~20080620[[booktype]]紙本[[booktype]]電子版[[conferencelocation]]Taipei, Taiwa

A software agent enabled biometric security algorithm for secure file access in consumer storage devices

In order to resist unauthorized access, consumer storage devices are typically protected using a low entropy password. However, storage devices are not fully protected against an adversary because the adversary can utilize an off-line dictionary attack to find the correct password and/or run an existing algorithm for resetting the existing password. In addition, a password protected device may also be stolen or misplaced allowing an adversary to easily retrieve all the stored confidential information from a removable storage device. In order to protect the consumer’s confidential information that has been stored, this paper proposes a mutual authentication and key negotiation protocol that can be used to protect the confidential information in the device. The functionality of the protocol enables the storage device to be secure against relevant security attacks. A formal security analysis using Burrows-Abadi-Needham (BAN) logic is presented to verify the presented algorithm. In addition, a performance analysis of the proposed protocol reveals a significantly reduced communication overhead compared to the relevant literature

A novel and efficient session spanning biometric and password based three-factor authentication protocol for consumer USB mass storage devices

This paper proposes a key agreement scheme after secure authentication to prevent the unauthorized access of the data stored in a Universal Serial Bus (USB) Mass Storage Device (MSD). Due to the system architecture of this proposed scheme, authorized users can store their data in a secure encrypted form after performing authentication. The novelty of this work is that users can retrieve the encrypted data in not only the current session but also across different sessions, thus reducing the required communications overhead. This paper then analyses the security of the proposed protocol through a formal analysis to demonstrate that the information has been stored securely and is also protected offering strong resilience to relevant security attacks. The computational and communication costs of the proposed scheme is analyzed and compared to related works to show that the proposed scheme has an improved tradeoff for computational cost, communication cost and security

Applying LU Decomposition of Matrices to Design Anonymity Bilateral Remote User Authentication Scheme

We apply LU decomposition of matrices to present an anonymous bilateral authentication scheme. This paper aims at improving security and providing more excellent performances for remote user authentication scheme. The proposed scheme can provide bilateral authentication and session key agreement, can quickly check the validity of the input password, and can really protect the user anonymity. The security of the proposed scheme is based on the discrete logarithm problem (DLP), Diffie-Hellman problem (DHP), and the one-way hash function. It can resist various attacks such as insider attack, impersonation attack, server spoofing attack, and stolen smart card attack. Moreover, the presented scheme is computationally efficient for real-life implementation