Distributed utility based User Authentication protocol for multi-server environment with key agreement utility
Darpan Anand, Vineeta Khemchandani · 2021 International Conference on Computational Performance Evaluation (ComPE) · 2021
The current era is the not only depends on Industry 4.0 but extends the technical development up to Industry 5.0. These developments are beyond the central client-server based system and depends on the multi-server based system using distributed services. These systems are inter-connected through multi-server architecture, using distributed computing to incorporate the services deployed on various different servers. For these services and architecture the authentication which is a process to prove genuine user’s legitimate identity, is very crucial. Due to various threats and attacks, the strong and non-vulnerable process of authentication is required. This manuscript targets to give the solution for multi-server architecture based authentication. The proposed authentication mechanism is targeting the e-governance system as a case study to give the integration and unified view to the existing scattered system to server the country. The existing e-governance system is working on three layers communication system. The proposed system is able to prove the genuine user’s legitimate identity for multi-server architecture based system. Further, the proposed system is developed to work for distributed storage utility and secure due to not depends on the central verification table. Further, the proposed authentication mechanism has the utility to share a secrete key for secure communication among all the layers. It means the proposed system has capabilities for integration, unified view to existing system, session key management among all the communication layers, not depends on central verification table, and having distributed storage utility. The proposed mechanism of authentication is tested for various known security attack to attain the security goals.