Journal of Applied Science and Engineering

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Wen-Gong Shieh1 and Wen-Bing Horng This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.2

1Department of Information Management, Chinese Culture University, Taipei, Taiwan 111, R.O.C.
2Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Tamkang University Tamsui, Taiwan 251, R.O.C.


 

Received: September 4, 2011
Accepted: May 17, 2013
Publication Date: September 1, 2013

Download Citation: ||https://doi.org/10.6180/jase.2013.16.3.11  


ABSTRACT


Remote authentication is an essential part of the rapid-growing electronic commerce. Recently, Huang and Wei proposed a complete authentication scheme using smart cards with only lightweight operations, such as exclusive-or operations, secure one-way hash functions, and pseudo-random number generators. However, Yeh et al. indicated that Huang-Wei’s scheme is vulnerable to the probing analysis attack and then presented a security-enhanced scheme. In this paper, we will show that Yeh et al.’s enhanced scheme suffers from two different kinds of attacks. First, Yeh et al.’s scheme is also vulnerable to two different types of probing analysis attacks. Second, their scheme is susceptible to the user impersonation attack. Moreover, we also develop the mathematical backgrounds for these two types of probing analysis attacks, which can be used by the authentication protocol designers to avoid such kind of attacks.


Keywords: Authentication, Cryptanalysis, Probing Analysis Attack, Security, Smart Card


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