A Light Weight Three Factor based Authentication Scheme for Multi-server Environment using Smart Cards
Shreeya Swagatika Sahoo, Sujata Mohanty, Banshidhar Majhi · 2017
With the rapid growth of modern computer networks, the Internet and telecommunication technology have alleviated remote access. The authentication scheme is a mechanism, which can authenticate user and server over an insecure network. To fulfill the requirement of practical applications, many passwords and smart card based authentication schemes have been proposed for the multi-server environment. However, the password might be forgotten, and the smart card might be for lost or shared whereas the biometric-based authentication schemes have no such drawbacks. In this paper, we have intimated an efficient three-factor authentication scheme for the multi-server environment using the hash function. The rigorous security and performance analysis depicts that the proposed scheme provides user's anonymity, mutual authentication, session key agreement and secure against several known attacks. In addition, the proposed scheme has been simulated using widely accepted AVISPA tool. Due to the low computational cost of the protocol, it has the potential to be used in low power devices.