An Enhanced User Authentication Protocol Based on Elliptic Curve Cryptosystem in Cloud Computing Environment
Joint Authors
Xu, Guoai
Wang, Chenyu
Wang, Ping
Li, Bin
Zhao, Yiming
Ding, Ke
Guo, Yanhui
Source
Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing
Issue
Vol. 2018, Issue 2018 (31 Dec. 2018), pp.1-13, 13 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2018-10-01
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
13
Main Subjects
Information Technology and Computer Science
Abstract EN
With the popularity of cloud computing, information security issues in the cloud environment are becoming more and more prominent.
As the first line of defense to ensure cloud computing security, user authentication has attracted extensive attention.
Though considerable efforts have been paid for a secure and practical authentication scheme in cloud computing environment, most attempts ended in failure.
The design of a secure and efficient user authentication scheme for cloud computing remains a challenge on the one hand and user’s smart card or mobile devices are of limited resource; on the other hand, with the combination of cloud computing and the Internet of Things, applications in cloud environments often need to meet various security requirements and are vulnerable to more attacks.
In 2018, Amin et al.
proposed an enhanced user authentication scheme in cloud computing, hoping to overcome the identified security flaws of two previous schemes.
However, after a scrutinization of their scheme, we revealed that it still suffers from the same attacks (such as no user anonymity, no forward secrecy, and being vulnerable to offline dictionary attack) as the two schemes they compromised.
Consequently, we take the scheme of Amin et al.
(2018) as a study case, we discussed the inherent reason and the corresponding solutions to authentication schemes for cloud computing environment in detail.
Next, we not only proposed an enhanced secure and efficient scheme, but also explained the design rationales for a secure cloud environment protocol.
Finally, we applied BAN logic and heuristic analysis to show the security of the protocol and compared our scheme with related schemes.
The results manifest the superiority of our scheme.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Wang, Chenyu& Ding, Ke& Li, Bin& Zhao, Yiming& Xu, Guoai& Guo, Yanhui…[et al.]. 2018. An Enhanced User Authentication Protocol Based on Elliptic Curve Cryptosystem in Cloud Computing Environment. Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing،Vol. 2018, no. 2018, pp.1-13.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1215943
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Wang, Chenyu…[et al.]. An Enhanced User Authentication Protocol Based on Elliptic Curve Cryptosystem in Cloud Computing Environment. Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing No. 2018 (2018), pp.1-13.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1215943
American Medical Association (AMA)
Wang, Chenyu& Ding, Ke& Li, Bin& Zhao, Yiming& Xu, Guoai& Guo, Yanhui…[et al.]. An Enhanced User Authentication Protocol Based on Elliptic Curve Cryptosystem in Cloud Computing Environment. Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing. 2018. Vol. 2018, no. 2018, pp.1-13.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1215943
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1215943