Cryptanalysis of a Smartcard-Based User Authentication Scheme for Multi-Server Environments

Debiao HE  Hao HU  

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications   Vol.E95-B   No.9   pp.3052-3054
Publication Date: 2012/09/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1345
DOI: 10.1587/transcom.E95.B.3052
Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: LETTER
Category: Multimedia Systems for Communications
Keyword: 
authentication scheme,  multi-server environment,  smart card,  

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Summary: 
Recently, Lee et al. [Y. Lee, E. Kim, S. Seok, and M. Jung, A smartcard-based user authentication scheme to ensure the PFS in multi-server environments, IEICE Transactions on Communications, vol.E95-B, no.2, pp.619–622, 2012] proposed a smartcard-based user authentication scheme for multi-server environments. They claimed that their scheme could withstand various attacks and provide the perfect forward secrecy (PFS). However, in this letter, we will point out that their scheme is vulnerable to three kinds of attacks and cannot provide the PFS.