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Robust Biometrics Based Authentication and Key Agreement Scheme for Multi-Server Environments Using Smart Cards

Biometrics authenticated schemes using smart cards have attracted much attention in multi-server environments. Several schemes of this type where proposed in the past. However, many of them were found to have some design flaws. This paper concentrates on the security weaknesses of the three-factor a...

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Autores principales: Lu, Yanrong, Li, Lixiang, Yang, Xing, Yang, Yixian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4433342/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25978373
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0126323
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description Biometrics authenticated schemes using smart cards have attracted much attention in multi-server environments. Several schemes of this type where proposed in the past. However, many of them were found to have some design flaws. This paper concentrates on the security weaknesses of the three-factor authentication scheme by Mishra et al. After careful analysis, we find their scheme does not really resist replay attack while failing to provide an efficient password change phase. We further propose an improvement of Mishra et al.’s scheme with the purpose of preventing the security threats of their scheme. We demonstrate the proposed scheme is given to strong authentication against several attacks including attacks shown in the original scheme. In addition, we compare the performance and functionality with other multi-server authenticated key schemes.
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spelling pubmed-44333422015-05-27 Robust Biometrics Based Authentication and Key Agreement Scheme for Multi-Server Environments Using Smart Cards Lu, Yanrong Li, Lixiang Yang, Xing Yang, Yixian PLoS One Research Article Biometrics authenticated schemes using smart cards have attracted much attention in multi-server environments. Several schemes of this type where proposed in the past. However, many of them were found to have some design flaws. This paper concentrates on the security weaknesses of the three-factor authentication scheme by Mishra et al. After careful analysis, we find their scheme does not really resist replay attack while failing to provide an efficient password change phase. We further propose an improvement of Mishra et al.’s scheme with the purpose of preventing the security threats of their scheme. We demonstrate the proposed scheme is given to strong authentication against several attacks including attacks shown in the original scheme. In addition, we compare the performance and functionality with other multi-server authenticated key schemes. Public Library of Science 2015-05-15 /pmc/articles/PMC4433342/ /pubmed/25978373 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0126323 Text en © 2015 Lu et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
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title_short Robust Biometrics Based Authentication and Key Agreement Scheme for Multi-Server Environments Using Smart Cards
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4433342/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25978373
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0126323
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