Paper 2012/527

Cryptanalysis of a recent two factor authentication scheme

Michael Scott

Abstract

Very recently a scheme has been proposed by Wang and Ma for a robust smart-card based password authentication scheme, which claims to be secure against a Smart Card security breach. In this short note we attempt an initial cryptanalysis of this scheme.

Metadata
Available format(s)
PDF
Category
Cryptographic protocols
Publication info
Published elsewhere. Unknown where it was published
Contact author(s)
mike scott @ certivox com
History
2012-09-07: received
Short URL
https://ia.cr/2012/527
License
Creative Commons Attribution
CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2012/527,
      author = {Michael Scott},
      title = {Cryptanalysis of a recent two factor authentication scheme},
      howpublished = {Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2012/527},
      year = {2012},
      note = {\url{https://eprint.iacr.org/2012/527}},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2012/527}
}
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