Paper Info
Title
Secure and efficient two-factor zero-knowledge authentication solution for access control systems.
Abstract
The authentication schemes based on common chip cards such as Mifare cards are still very popular and are used in various access control systems deployed in critical infrastructure sectors, universities, companies, libraries, hospitals, and other public and private institutions. On one hand, the access control systems based on these obsolete cards and cryptographic protocols have several security flaws and can be easily attacked. On the other hand, newer authentication schemes usually need many complex cryptographic operations and thus take impractical time on current programmable smart cards during the authentication of users. In this paper, we present a secure and efficient two-factor authentication protocol for fast access control systems and user-things identification schemes based on programmable smart cards. Our protocol is based on a zero-knowledge approach, and it is protected against common attacks. Further, we implement the proposed authentication protocol on current off-the-shelf programmable smart cards in order to demonstrate its efficiency and practicality. Finally, we compare our solution with related works and show the improvement of our solution in computation and communication perspectives.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1016/j.cose.2018.05.006
Computers & Security
Keywords
Field
DocType
Authentication,Access control system,Contactless smart cards,Cryptography,Security
Authentication,Cryptographic protocol,Cryptography,Computer security,Computer science,Smart card,Critical infrastructure,Authentication protocol,Access control,Zero-knowledge proof
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
77
0167-4048
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.36
27
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Lukas Malina110315.41
Petr Dzurenda2128.99
Jan Hajny3125.95
Zdenek Martinasek4267.38