Enhancement of Two-Factor User Authentication in Wireless Sensor Networks

Author

Huang, Hui-Feng ; Chang, Ya-Fen ; Liu, Chun-Hung

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Inf. Eng., Nat. Taichung Inst. of Technol., Taichung, Taiwan

fYear

2010

fDate

15-17 Oct. 2010

Firstpage

27

Lastpage

30

Abstract

Wireless sensor networks are widely used for applications such as environmental monitoring, airport safety, health care, etc. For user authentication, in 2009, Das proposed a two-factor user authentication scheme in wireless sensor networks. They claimed that this scheme provided efficiency, strong security, and user anonymity property. However, we find that Das´s scheme is still vulnerable to masquerade attack and cannot achieve user anonymity. This paper will propose an improvement to remedy the weakness of Das´s scheme.

Keywords

authorisation; wireless sensor networks; Das scheme; masquerade attack; two factor user authentication; user anonymity property; wireless sensor network; Authentication; Conferences; Logic gates; Smart cards; Tin; Wireless sensor networks; Two-factor; authentication; user anonymity; wireless sensor network;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing (IIH-MSP), 2010 Sixth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Darmstadt

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8378-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-4222-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IIHMSP.2010.14

Filename

5635779