Cryptanalysis of a recent two factor authentication scheme

Michael Scott

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: 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},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2012/527}
}