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Computer Science and Information Technology Vol. 3(4), pp. 117 - 121
DOI: 10.13189/csit.2015.030404
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A Novel Smart Card-based Remote User Authentication Mechanism
Deborah Uwera , Dongho Won *
Department of Computer Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea
ABSTRACT
The past few years have seen a rapid progress of multi-user computing environments. Numerous security mechanisms have therefore been employed in a bid to ensure that sensitive information in computer systems does not get destroyed, copied or even altered by unauthorized users. Remote users attempting to login into a particular system would therefore have to authenticate themselves to the server and vice versa. This paper proposes a novel remote user authentication scheme using smart cards. Our scheme endeavors to be an efficient yet secure scheme, hence we chose to use only one-way hash functions and XOR operations, in order to avoid computationally complex operations. We also conducted a security analysis on our scheme to ensure that it is secure against possible known attacks.
KEYWORDS
Security, Authentication, Key Exchange
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(a). IEEE Format:
[1] Deborah Uwera , Dongho Won , "A Novel Smart Card-based Remote User Authentication Mechanism," Computer Science and Information Technology, Vol. 3, No. 4, pp. 117 - 121, 2015. DOI: 10.13189/csit.2015.030404.
(b). APA Format:
Deborah Uwera , Dongho Won (2015). A Novel Smart Card-based Remote User Authentication Mechanism. Computer Science and Information Technology, 3(4), 117 - 121. DOI: 10.13189/csit.2015.030404.