A novel key agreement scheme in a multiple server environment

  • Authors:
  • Chin-Chen Chang;Chia-Chi Wu

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, Feng Chia University, Taichung, Taiwan, R.O.C. and Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Chung Cheng Univ ...;Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Chung Cheng University, Chiayi, Taiwan, R.O.C.

  • Venue:
  • WISA'06 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Information security applications: PartI
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Due to the rapid advancement of cryptographic techniques, the smart card has recently become a popular device capable of storing and computing essential information with such properties as tamper-resistance and guessinglock. However, most electronic transactions are in fact performed in the multiserver environment, which unfortunately means conventional authentication schemes cannot satisfy both of the basic requirements: security and efficiency. To make a difference, Juang proposed scheme in February 2004. Nevertheless, there still exist two drawbacks in Juang's scheme: (1) they need this registration center to distribute the shared key when the user logins the server for services; (2) the authentication scheme lacks round efficiency. In this paper, we proposed an efficient and secure multi-server authenticated key agreement scheme, where the user only needs to register once and can be authenticated without any registration center. Furthermore, the proposed scheme can be employed for the use of mobile networks because of its low computation load and round efficiency.