TITLE:
An Enhanced Remote User Authentication Scheme
AUTHORS:
Xiaohui Yang, Xinchun Cui, Zhenliang Cao, Ziqiang Hu
KEYWORDS:
Password, Dynamic ID, User Authentication, Smart Cards, Nonce
JOURNAL NAME:
Engineering,
Vol.6 No.6,
April
30,
2014
ABSTRACT: Remote user
authentication schemes are used to verify the legitimacy of remote users’ login
request. Recently, several dynamic user authentication schemes have been
proposed. It can be seen that, these schemes have weaknesses because of using
timestamps. The implement of strict and safe time synchronization is very
difficult and increases network overhead. In this paper, we propose a new
dynamic user authentication based on nonce. Mutual authentication is performed
using a challenge-response handshake between user and server, and it avoids the
problems of synchronism between smart card and the remote server. Besides, the
scheme provides user’s anonymity and session key agreement. Finally, the
security analysis and performance evaluation show that the scheme can resist
several attacks, and our proposal is feasible in terms of computation cost and
communication cost.