SAS-SIP: A secure authentication scheme based on ECC and a fuzzy extractor for session initiation protocol
Tanmoy Maitra, Debasis Giri, R. N. Mohapatra · Cryptologia · 2019
The session initiation protocol is used for communication purposes in a client-server environment, where for each time session the client and server agree upon a shared secret session key through an authentication system. After establishing the connection between client and server for a session, both the parties use a session key to encrypt/decrypt messages for communicating within that session securely. Therefore, authentication plays a vital role in sharing the secret session key. Recently, Chaudhry et al. proposed an authentication scheme; yet this paper shows that Chaudhry et al.’s scheme has inefficient login and password change phases, respectively, and does not take care of the users’ anonymity. Therefore, this study proposes an enhanced scheme, referred to as the secure authentication scheme for session initiation protocol (SAS-SIP) to eliminate the drawbacks of the scheme proposed by Chaudhry et al. In addition, the proposed SAS-SIP uses fuzzy extractors to incorporate biometric data along with the password to enhance the degree of security in the authentication system. After performing the security analysis through a random oracle model, this paper concludes that SAS-SIP is secure from secret information retrieval of communicators to the attacker. Furthermore, it has a better trade-off among several measurement costs along with security.