A User Convenient Secure Authentication Scheme for Accessing e-Governance Services
Preeti Soni, Arup Kumar Pal, Kumari Khushboo · 2019
Information and communication technology has upgraded the delivery of government services to the citizens. Consequently, it has been widely adopted by the government agencies. It is essential to provide the e-Governance services securely to the citizen. Therefore, authentication of the involved participants is indispensable. In G2C e-Governance service, the user participates actively and provides its own credentials for registration. After that, the user is allowed to access different kind of services like e-transport, e-health, e-education through the Internet. For each application service, the user performs registration process and chooses a pair of login ID and password. But, it is inconvenient for the user to memorize login credentials for different G2C e-Governance services. Therefore, one solution is to use common login credential to access any of the G2C services. For this purpose, the user chooses a login credentials and register to a trustworthy agency authorized by the government. Through this login id and password, the user can access any of the G2C e-Governance service one at a time. A multi-server authentication model can be a suitable approach for the user to access different services in a convenient way. Therefore, the authors have proposed an RSA based multi-server authentication scheme for accessing G2C e-Governance services. The security analysis and AVISPA simulated outcomes are also incorporated in this paper to ensure its suitability for this application.