Three-factor Authentication Protocol Research Articles

A Secure and Efficient User Anonymity-Preserving Three-Factor Authentication Protocol for Large-Scale Distributed Wireless Sensor Networks

Critical applications in wireless sensor network (WSN) are real-time based applications. Therefore, users are generally interested in accessing real-time information. This is possible, if the users (called the external parties) are allowed to access the real-time data directly from the sensor nodes inside WSN and not from the base station. The sensory information from nodes are gathered periodically by the base station and so, the gathered information may not be real-time. In order to get the real-time information from the sensor nodes, the user needs to be first authorized to the sensor nodes as well as the base station so that the illegal access to nodes do not happen. In this paper, we propose a novel three-factor user authentication scheme suited for distributed WSNs. Our scheme is light-weight, because it only requires the efficient cryptographic hash function, and symmetric key encryption and decryption operations. Further, our scheme is secure against different known attacks which are proved through the rigorous informal and formal security analysis. In addition, we simulate our scheme for the formal security verification using Automated Validation of Internet Security Protocols and Applications tool. The simulation results clearly demonstrate that our scheme is secure against passive and active adversaries.

Three Factor Authentication using Webcam for securing Online Transaction

There are a continuously growing number of customers who use Online Transaction facility due to its convenience. But the security and privacy of Information may be one of the biggest concerns to the users. In face of the current security issues and the growing number of attacks and consequent frauds, new systems should be designed as to provide better authentication and identification methods. A generic and secure framework is proposed to upgrade two-factor authentication to three-factor authentication. A well designed three-factor authentication protocol authentication system can greatly improve the information assurance at low cost. In three-factor authentication, in addition to furnishing their regular password and an OTP, users will be asked to provide biometric information would irrefutably prove their identity. This fingerprint biometric information can be captured by using low cost sensors such as Web Cam. In this paper, we investigate new technique to suitably process camera images of fingertips in order to produce image which are as similar as possible to the ones coming from dedicated sensors. The proposed technique encompasses a segmentation, enhancement and matching of the fingertip image for the person's identifiaction.