A Remote User Authentication Scheme Using Smart Cards

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Recently Hwang and Li［1］ proposed a remote user authentication scheme using smart cards. Their scheme is based on the ElGamal public key cryptosystem and does not need to maintain a password table for verifying the legitimacy of the login users. In this paper, we proposed an advanced user authentication scheme using smart cards. Unlike Hwang and Li's scheme, smart card contains a pair of public parameters(h, P) where h is a hash function which is used in login phase. In result, we reduce one exponential computation frequency in login phase and two exponential computation frequencies in authentication phase with comparing the Hwang and Li's scheme. The proposed scheme not only provides the advantages as security of Hwang and Li's scheme, but also reduces computation cost.