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A provably secure and efficient authentication scheme for access control in mobile pay-TV systems

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To guarantee the secure access by authorized subscribers in mobile pay-TV systems, user authentication is required. User authentication is a security mechanism used to verify the identity of a legal subscriber. In 2012, Yeh and Tsaur proposed an authentication scheme for access control in mobile pay-TV systems to improve the Sun and Leu’s scheme. Yeh and Tsaur claimed that their scheme meets all security requirements for mobile pay-TV systems. However, this paper indicates that Yeh and Tsaur’s scheme suffers from some critical weaknesses. An attacker without knowing secret information can successfully impersonate both mobile sets and head-end system. As a remedy, we propose an improved authentication scheme for mobile pay-TV systems using bilinear pairings. The proposed scheme maintains the merits and covers the demerits of the previous schemes, and provides a higher level of the efficiency for mobile pay-TV systems.

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  1. Faculty of Mathematical Sciences and Computer, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran

    Mohammad Sabzinejad Farash

  2. Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Thehran, Iran

    Mahmoud Ahmadian Attari

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Farash, M.S., Attari, M.A. A provably secure and efficient authentication scheme for access control in mobile pay-TV systems. Multimed Tools Appl 75, 405–424 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-014-2296-4

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