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Authentication in Cloud Computing Environment Using Two Factor Authentication

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Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Soft Computing for Problem Solving

Part of the book series: Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing ((AISC,volume 259))

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The security is one of the indispensable concerns in the cloud computing. Different authentication and access mechanisms are implemented for different services in the cloud. For uniform strong authentication and obviate the need for password registration, two factor authentication (T-FA) has been proposed. The data owner provides one of the credentials in this is a two tier mechanism. T-FA needs two identities based on what the user knows and what he possesses which is implemented through Software as a Service (SaaS) in the cloud computing environment. However, key-compromise impersonation makes the software only mechanism vulnerable if a server is compromised. This study examines this vulnerability and proposes an identity based signature technique to make T-FA resilient to impersonation attack. Analysis shows that the proposed technique is able to make T-FA mechanism robust to key-compromise impersonation attacks.

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  1. ITM University, Gwalior, India

    Brijesh Kumar Chaurasia

  2. Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad, India

    Awanish Shahi & Shekhar Verma

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  1. Department of Paper Technology, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India

    Millie Pant

  2. Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India

    Kusum Deep

  3. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool, United Kingdom

    Atulya Nagar

  4. Department of Applied Mathematics, South Asian University, New Delhi, India

    Jagdish Chand Bansal

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Chaurasia, B.K., Shahi, A., Verma, S. (2014). Authentication in Cloud Computing Environment Using Two Factor Authentication. In: Pant, M., Deep, K., Nagar, A., Bansal, J. (eds) Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Soft Computing for Problem Solving. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 259. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-1768-8_67

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