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An ID‐based mutual authentication with key agreement protocol for multiserver environment on elliptic curve cryptosystem
Author(s) -
Han Weiwei,
Zhu Zhian
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
international journal of communication systems
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.344
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1099-1131
pISSN - 1074-5351
DOI - 10.1002/dac.2405
Subject(s) - computer science , elliptic curve cryptography , mutual authentication , cryptosystem , protocol (science) , elliptic curve , curve25519 , key (lock) , authentication protocol , authentication (law) , key size , public key cryptography , computer network , computer security , cryptography , mathematics , encryption , mathematical analysis , medicine , alternative medicine , pathology
SUMMARY Mutual authentication is used to validate the legitimacy of a remote login user and a server. Conventional user authentication protocols are suited to solve the privacy and security problems for the single client/server architecture environment. However, the use of computer networks and information technology has grown spectacularly. More and more network architectures are used in multi‐server environments. Recently, several authentication schemes for multi‐server environments have been proposed. However, the performance of these schemes is not suitable for applications. To improve the performance, we propose a new ID‐based mutual authentication protocols for multi‐server environment without bilinear pairings. We also show that the proposed scheme is provable secure in the random oracle model. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.