title: An Efficient and Practical Smart Card Based Anonymity Preserving User Authentication Scheme for TMIS using Elliptic Curve Cryptography.
abstract: In the last few years, numerous remote user authentication and session key agreement schemes have been put forwarded for Telecare Medical Information System, where the patient and medical server exchange medical information using Internet. We have found that most of the schemes are not usable for practical applications due to known security weaknesses. It is also worth to note that unrestricted number of patients login to the single medical server across the globe. Therefore, the computation and maintenance overhead would be high and the server may fail to provide services. In this article, we have designed a medical system architecture and a standard mutual authentication scheme for single medical server, where the patient can securely exchange medical data with the doctor(s) via trusted central medical server over any insecure network. We then explored the security of the scheme with its resilience to attacks. Moreover, we formally validated the proposed scheme through the simulation using Automated Validation of Internet Security Schemes and Applications software whose outcomes confirm that the scheme is protected against active and passive attacks. The performance comparison demonstrated that the proposed scheme has lower communication cost than the existing schemes in literature. In addition, the computation cost of the proposed scheme is nearly equal to the exiting schemes. The proposed scheme not only efficient in terms of different security attacks, but it also provides an efficient login, mutual authentication, session key agreement and verification and password update phases along with password recovery.
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad, 826004, Jharkhand, India. amin_ruhul@live.com.
authors.forename: Ruhul
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Amin
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani Campus, Rajasthan, 333031, India. hafi786@gmail.com.
authors.forename: S K Hafizul
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Islam
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad, 826004, Jharkhand, India. gpbiswas@gmail.com.
authors.forename: G P
authors.initials: GP
authors.lastname: Biswas
authors.affiliation: Center of Excellence in Information Assurance, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. mkhurram@ksu.edu.sa.
authors.forename: Muhammad Khurram
authors.initials: MK
authors.lastname: Khan
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Thapar University, Patiala, 147004, India. neeraj.kumar@thapar.edu.
authors.forename: Neeraj
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Kumar
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D016494:Computer Security / Q000295:instrumentation*; D003219:Confidentiality; D066275:Health Information Exchange; D000069098:Health Smart Cards; D006801:Humans; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000295:instrumentation*
keywords: Attack; Authentication; Elliptic curve; Password; Smart card; Telecare medical information system