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Analysis of Al-Saggaf et al’s Three-factor User Authentication Scheme for TMIS

  • Journal of The Korea Society of Computer and Information
  • Abbr : JKSCI
  • 2021, 26(9), pp.89-96
  • DOI : 10.9708/jksci.2021.26.09.089
  • Publisher : The Korean Society Of Computer And Information
  • Research Area : Engineering > Computer Science
  • Received : August 10, 2021
  • Accepted : August 31, 2021
  • Published : September 30, 2021

Mi-Og Park 1

1성결대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

In this paper, we analyzed that the user authentication scheme for TMIS(Telecare Medicine Information System) proposed by Al-Saggaf et al. In 2019, Al-Saggaf et al. proposed authentication scheme using biometric information, Al-Saggaf et al. claimed that their authentication scheme provides high security against various attacks along with very low computational cost. However in this paper after analyzing Al-Saggaf et al’s authentication scheme, the Al-Saggaf et al’s one are missing random number s from the DB to calculate the identity of the user from the server, and there is a design error in the authentication scheme due to the lack of delivery method. Al-Saggaf et al also claimed that their authentication scheme were safe against a variety of attacks, but were vulnerable to password guessing attack using login request messages and smart cards, session key exposure and insider attack. An attacker could also use a password to decrypt the stored user's biometric information by encrypting the DB with a password. Exposure of biometric information is a very serious breach of the user's privacy, which could allow an attacker to succeed in the user impersonation. Furthermore, Al-Saggaf et al’s authentication schemes are vulnerable to identity guessing attack, which, unlike what they claimed, do not provide significant user anonymity in TMIS.

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