Detection and prevention of new attacks for ID-based authentication protocols

Jinyong Chen, Reiner Dojen, Anca Jurcut

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Abstract

The rapid development of information and network technologies motivates the emergence of various new computing paradigms, such as distributed computing, and edge computing. This also enables more and more network enterprises to provide multiple different services simultaneously. To ensure these services can conveniently be accessed only by authorized users, many password and smart card-based authentication schemes for multi-server architecture have been proposed. In this paper, we review several dynamic ID-based password authentication schemes for multi-server environments. New attacks against four of these schemes are presented, demonstrating that an adversary can impersonate either legitimate or fictitious users. The impact of these attacks is the failure to achieve the main security requirement: authentication. Thus, the security of the analyzed schemes is proven to be compromised. We analyze these four dynamic ID-based schemes and discuss the reasons for the success of the new attacks. Additionally, we propose a new set of design guidelines to prevent such exploitable weaknesses on dynamic ID-based authentication protocols. Finally, we apply the proposed guidelines to the analyzed protocols and demonstrate that violation of these guidelines leads to insecure protocols.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationICNCC 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 9th International Conference on Networks, Communication and Computing
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Pages78-86
Number of pages9
ISBN (Electronic)9781450388566
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 18 Dec 2020
Event9th International Conference on Networks, Communication and Computing, ICNCC 2020 - Virtual, Online, Japan
Duration: 18 Dec 202020 Dec 2020

Publication series

NameACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Conference

Conference9th International Conference on Networks, Communication and Computing, ICNCC 2020
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityVirtual, Online
Period18/12/2020/12/20

Keywords

  • Attacks
  • Authentication protocols
  • Exploitable weaknesses
  • Multi-factor authentication
  • Multi-server environment
  • User anonymity

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