Improvement on a password authentication scheme for multi-server environments

Journal of Convergence Information Technology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 218-228

  Tan, Zuowen ^a,b  

^a JIANGXI UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS   (China)

^b FUJIAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Authentication; Multi server; Smart card

Indexed keywords

AUTHENTICATION METHODS; AUTHENTICATION SCHEME; ID-BASED; MULTI-SERVER; MULTI-SERVER ENVIRONMENT; PASSWORD AUTHENTICATION; PERFECT FORWARD SECURITY; REGISTRATION CENTER; REMOTE SERVERS; REMOTE USER AUTHENTICATION SCHEMES; SECURITY ADVANTAGE; SECURITY FLAWS; SINGLE-SERVER ENVIRONMENT; USER NEED;

SERVERS; SMART CARDS;

AUTHENTICATION;

EID: 79952433568     PISSN: 19759320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4156/jcit.vol6.issue1.26     Document Type: Article

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