Title: An efficient One-Time Password authentication scheme using a smart card

Authors: Sookyoung Lee, Krishna M. Sivalingam

Addresses: Department of CSEE, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD 21250, USA. ' Department of CSEE, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD 21250, USA; Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai – 600036, India

Abstract: This paper presents a One-Time Password (OTP) mechanism to provide authentication, with particular application to thin clients in wireless networks. Many of the current OTP mechanisms have high client side computation costs, high communication costs, or limited login times. To cope with these problems, this paper proposes a new one-time password scheme using a smart card. In the scheme, we present a novel modification to the Depth-First Search (DFS) based on a unique tree structure to generate a private key. We present a detailed analysis of the proposed scheme using an OpenSSL based implementation.

Keywords: OTP; one-time password; mutual authentication; DFS; depth-first search; smart cards; private keys; network security; wireless networks.

DOI: 10.1504/IJSN.2009.027340

International Journal of Security and Networks, 2009 Vol.4 No.3, pp.145 - 152

Published online: 20 Jul 2009 *

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