Security analysis and improvement of a user-friendly remote authentication protocol

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Remote user authentication is very important in a distributed computer environment. Recently Wu and Chieu devised a user-friendly remote authentication protocol using smart card. This article shows that their protocol is vulnerable to the forged login attack. Then a simple improvement is suggested to eliminate the vulnerability.

论文关键词:Remote authentication,Forged login attack,Improvement,One-way hash function

论文评审过程:Available online 22 October 2004.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amc.2004.06.144