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http://dx.doi.org/10.13089/JKIISC.2008.18.5.41

An Attribute-Based Authentication Scheme Using Smart Cards  

Yoo, Hye-Joung (Sejong Cyber University)
Rhee, Hyun-Sook (Korea University, University of Wollongong)
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Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology / v.18, no.5, 2008 , pp. 41-47 More about this Journal
Abstract
In a network environment, when a user requests a server's service, he/she must pass an examination of user authentication. Through this process, the server can determine if the user can use the provided services and the exact access rights of this user in these services. In these authentication schemes, the security of private information became an important issue. For this reason, many suggestions have been made in order to protect the privacy of users and smart cards have been widely used for authentication systems providing anonymity of users recently. An remote user authentication system using smart cards is a very practical solution to validate the eligibility of a user and provide secure communication. However, there are no studies in attribute-based authentication schemes using smart cards so far. In this paper, we propose a novel user authentication scheme using smart cards based on attributes. The major merits include : (1) the proposed scheme achieves the low-computation requirement for smart cards; (2) user only needs to register once and can use permitted various services according to attributes; (3) the proposed scheme guarantees perfect anonymity to remote server.
Keywords
User Authentication; Smart Cards;
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