title: An anonymous user authentication with key agreement scheme without pairings for multiserver architecture using SCPKs.
abstract: With advancement of computer community and widespread dissemination of network applications, users generally need multiple servers to provide different services. Accordingly, the multiserver architecture has been prevalent, and designing a secure and efficient remote user authentication under multiserver architecture becomes a nontrivial challenge. In last decade, various remote user authentication protocols have been put forward to correspond to the multi-server scenario requirements. However, these schemes suffered from certain security problems or their cost consumption exceeded users' own constrained ability. In this paper, we present an anonymous remote user authentication with key agreement scheme for multi-server architecture employing self-certified public keys without pairings. The proposed scheme can not only retain previous schemes' advantages but also achieve user privacy concern. Moreover, our proposal can gain higher efficiency by removing the pairings operation compared with the related schemes. Through analysis and comparison with the related schemes, we can say that our proposal is in accordance with the scenario requirements and feasible to the multi-server architecture.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Networking and Switching Technology, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China. jiangpengbanana@163.com
authors.forename: Peng
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Jiang
authors.forename: Qiaoyan
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Wen
authors.forename: Wenmin
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Zhengping
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Jin
authors.forename: Hua
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D016494:Computer Security; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*