• DocumentCode
    1022145
  • Title

    Comments on yet another log-in authentication using n-dimensional construction

  • Author

    Wang, Shuhong ; Bao, Feng ; Wang, Jie

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Math. Sci., Peking Univ., China
  • Volume
    50
  • Issue
    2
  • fYear
    2004
  • fDate
    5/1/2004 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    606
  • Lastpage
    608
  • Abstract
    Smart cards mechanisms are explored to mitigate the burden of the server systems in remote login authentication. Different methods such as geometric approaches are invented and researched. Recently, Wang proposed yet another new scheme utilizing a circle property on an n-dimensional space instead of the simple Euclidean space in past schemes. The author claimed that this new scheme would be more secure than previously proposed scheme. However, in this paper, we show that the scheme of Wang is vulnerable to replaying and off-line password guessing attacks. Countermeasures are also presented.
  • Keywords
    authorisation; message authentication; network servers; smart cards; geometric approaches; n-dimensional space; remote login authentication; server systems; smart cards; Authentication; Data security; Databases; Dictionaries; Geometry; Humans; Resists; Time factors;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Consumer Electronics, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0098-3063
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TCE.2004.1309435
  • Filename
    1309435