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An improved one-to-many authentication scheme based on bilinear pairings with provable security for mobile pay-TV systems

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In 2012, Wang and Qin proposed an authentication mechanism in order to get access control for mobile pay-TV organization to enhance the Sun and Leu’s technique. Wang and Qin declared that their technique satisfies the security expectations or requirements intended for mobile pay-TV system. However, this work indicates that Wang and Qin’s scheme suffers from a nontrivial weakness. Successful impersonation attack is easily possible from an adversary who can impersonate mobile set (MS) to cheat the head-end system (HS). An adversary does not even need secret information to do so. As a remedy, we proposed an enhanced authentication technique for mobile pay-TV systems by taking a slight change in Wang and Qin’s scheme. The proposed scheme maintains the merits and covers the demerits of the previous schemes.

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

    Mohammad Sabzinejad Farash

  2. Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, International Islamic University Islamabad, Islamabad, Pakistan

    Shehzad Ashraf Chaudhry & Khalid Mahmood

  3. Department of Electrical Engineering, Shahid Beheshti University, G. C., 1983963113, Tehran, Iran

    Mohammad Heydari & Seyed Mohammad Sajad Sadough

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Heydari, M., Sajad Sadough, S.M., Chaudhry, S.A. et al. An improved one-to-many authentication scheme based on bilinear pairings with provable security for mobile pay-TV systems. Multimed Tools Appl 76, 14225–14245 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-016-3825-0

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