A key authentication scheme with non-repudiation
Min‐Shiang Hwang, Li-Hua Li, Cheng‐Chi Lee · ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review · 2004
In 1996, Horng and Yang proposed a key authentication scheme that requires no authorities. However, it is vulnerable to the guessing attack. An intruder can try out a password and forge the public key. To amend this problem, an improved authentication scheme intended to prevent the guessing attack and the forging problem was proposed by Zhan et al. in 1999. However, their scheme did not achieve non-repudiation of public key. In order to achieve non-repudiation of public key, two improvements of key authentication scheme for non-repudiation are discussed in this paper.