A Secure Strong-Password Authentication Protocol

  • Authors:
  • Hsien-Chu Wu;Min-Shiang Hwang;Chia-Hsin Liu

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Information Management, National Taichung Institute of Technology, 129 Sec. 3, San-min Rd., Taichung, Taiwan 404, R.O.C;Department of Management Information Systems, National Chung Hsing University, 250 Kuo Kuang Road, Taichung, Taiwan 402, R.O.C. E-mail: mshwang@nchu.edu.tw;Graduate Institute of Networking and Communication Engineering, Chao Yang University of Technology, 168 Gifeng E. Rd., Wufeng, Taichung County, Taiwan 413, R.O.C.

  • Venue:
  • Fundamenta Informaticae
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Password authentication, which is widely used for authenticated method, also is important protocol by requiring a username and password before being allowed access to resources. In 2001, Lin et al. proposed the optimal strong-password authentication protocol, called (OSPA) which is a one-time password method by verifying with the different verifier every time for affirming its identity. However, Chen-Ku and Tsuji-Shimizu pointed respectively out that OSPA is vulnerable to the stolen-verifier attack and impersonation attack. In this paper, we shall propose the improved protocol secure against the known attacks to enhance the security