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ECWAY TECHNOLOGIES
IEEE PROJECTS & SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENTS
OUR OFFICES @ CHENNAI / TRICHY / KARUR / ERODE / MADURAI / SALEM / COIMBATORE
CELL: +91 98949 17187, +91 875487 2111 / 3111 / 4111 / 5111 / 6111
VISIT: www.ecwayprojects.com MAIL TO: ecwaytechnologies@gmail.com

SECURITY ANALYSIS OF A SINGLE SIGN-ON MECHANISM FOR
DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER NETWORKS

ABSTRACT:

In this paper, however, we demonstrative that their scheme is actually insecure as it fails to meet
credential privacy and soundness of authentication. Specifically, we present two impersonation
attacks. The first attack allows a malicious service provider, who has successfully communicated
with a legal user twice, to recover the user’s credential and then to impersonate the user to access
resources and services offered by other service providers. In another attack, an outsider without
any credential may be able to enjoy network services freely by impersonating any legal user or a
nonexistent user. We identify the flaws in their security arguments to explain why attacks are
possible against their SSO scheme. Our attacks also apply to another SSO scheme proposed by
Hsu and Chuang, which inspired the design of the Chang–Lee scheme. Moreover, by employing
an efficient verifiable encryption of RSA signatures proposed by Ateniese, we propose an
improvement for repairing the Chang–Lee scheme.

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Security analysis of a single sign on mechanism for distributed computer networks

  • 1. ECWAY TECHNOLOGIES IEEE PROJECTS & SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENTS OUR OFFICES @ CHENNAI / TRICHY / KARUR / ERODE / MADURAI / SALEM / COIMBATORE CELL: +91 98949 17187, +91 875487 2111 / 3111 / 4111 / 5111 / 6111 VISIT: www.ecwayprojects.com MAIL TO: ecwaytechnologies@gmail.com SECURITY ANALYSIS OF A SINGLE SIGN-ON MECHANISM FOR DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER NETWORKS ABSTRACT: In this paper, however, we demonstrative that their scheme is actually insecure as it fails to meet credential privacy and soundness of authentication. Specifically, we present two impersonation attacks. The first attack allows a malicious service provider, who has successfully communicated with a legal user twice, to recover the user’s credential and then to impersonate the user to access resources and services offered by other service providers. In another attack, an outsider without any credential may be able to enjoy network services freely by impersonating any legal user or a nonexistent user. We identify the flaws in their security arguments to explain why attacks are possible against their SSO scheme. Our attacks also apply to another SSO scheme proposed by Hsu and Chuang, which inspired the design of the Chang–Lee scheme. Moreover, by employing an efficient verifiable encryption of RSA signatures proposed by Ateniese, we propose an improvement for repairing the Chang–Lee scheme.