Simple and Secure Password Authentication Protocol (SAS)

Manjula SANDIRIGAMA  Akihiro SHIMIZU  Matu-Tarow NODA  

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications   Vol.E83-B   No.6   pp.1363-1365
Publication Date: 2000/06/25
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Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: LETTER
Category: Fundamental Theories
Keyword: 
cryptography,  hash functions,  password authentication,  security,  one time password,  

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Summary: 
In the Internet and Mobile communication environment, authentication of the users is very important. Although at present password is extensively used for authentication, bare password transmission suffers from some inherent shortcomings. Several password-based authentication methods have been proposed to eliminate such shortcomings. Those proposed methods have relative demerits as well as merits. In this letter we propose a method where those demerits are eliminated. The prominent feature is security improvement apart from low processing, storage and transmission overheads compared to previous methods. This method can be used in several applications like remote login, encrypted and authenticated communication and electronic payment etc.