Cryptanalysis and improvement of an enhanced two-factor user authentication scheme in wireless sensor networks

Information Technology and Control

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 62-70

  Wei, Fushan ^a,b   Ma, Jianfeng ^a   Jiang, Qi ^a   Shen, Jian ^c   Ma, Chuangui ^b  

^a XIDIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b STATE KEY LABORATORY OF MATHEMATICAL ENGINEERING AND ADVANCED COMPUTING   (China)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Bio metrics; Smart card; Two factor authentication; Wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 84997014499     PISSN: 1392124X     EISSN: 2335884X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5755/j01.itc.45.1.11949     Document Type: Article

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