On the analysis and design of a family tree of smart card based user authentication schemes

  • Authors:
  • Raphael C.-W. Phan;Bok-Min Goi

  • Affiliations:
  • LASEC, EPFL, Switzerland;Centre for Cryptography and Information Security, Faculty of Engineering, Multimedia University, Cyberjaya, Malaysia

  • Venue:
  • UIC'07 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

A family (tree) of 2-party password-based authentication protocols based on smart cards abounds in security literature, more popularly known as remote user authentication schemes using smart cards. In this paper, we give a generic treatment to the security and analyses of such protocols, tracing back to the original versions due to Hwang et al. and Hwang-Li from which many variants have been derived. Our work here highlights the security implications of taking the break-and-tweak approach to protocol design.