Provably secure biometric-based client–server secure communication over unreliable networks. (May 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Saleem, Muhammad Asad; Islam, SK Hafizul; Ahmed, Shafiq; Mahmood, Khalid; Hussain, Majid
• Is Part Of: Journal of information security and applications. Volume 58(2021)
• Publication Date: 2021-05
• Subjects: Anonymity -- Authentication -- Impersonation attack -- Session key -- Smartcard; Computer security -- Periodicals; Information technology -- Security measures -- Periodicals; 005.805
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jisa.2021.102769
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2214-2126

Abstract

Abstract: Due to rapid advancement in internet technologies, remote client access has become much more comfortable than in previous days. The responsibility of the system does not limit even after providing access to resources. In every system, there is a possibility that an adversary may use the resources of the system without prior authentication. This will create interruption, and the clients of the system will ultimately be affected, so the system must provide some authentication mechanism. Therefore, an authentication scheme needs to be introduced, which provides security against different attacks. Consequently, in this article, we propose a reliable and secure three factor authentication scheme that prevents various security attacks. The provable security of the proposed scheme is proved through a widely used random oracle model. We implemented the cryptographic operations of proposed and related schemes on a desktop system having good specifications to get the experimental results. Moreover, the presented scheme is compared with the existing schemes to compare its performance. The performance evaluation shows that our scheme is lightweight and efficient in terms of computation and communication costs as compared to related competing schemes.