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An authentication system provides such an environment by which remote server can easily verify the authorized remote users over a public communication channel like the Internet. In this regard, Lin et al. proposed a timestamp-based remote user authentication scheme based on the geometric properties on the Euclidean plane for multi-server architecture. Unfortunately, we show in this paper that Lin et al.’s scheme has some security weaknesses. Furthermore, we propose an improvement of Lin et al.’s scheme to withstand their issues. Our improved scheme is analyzed and it shows that the proposed scheme can protect various security attacks. This work also compares the proposed scheme with the related schemes to check the efficiency.
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Giri, D., Maitra, T. (2021). A Geometric-Based User Authentication Scheme for Multi-server Architecture: Cryptanalysis and Enhancement. In: Giri, D., Buyya, R., Ponnusamy, S., De, D., Adamatzky, A., Abawajy, J.H. (eds) Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Mathematics and Computing. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1262. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8061-1_2
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