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ARTICLES

1 APPROACHES TO THE APPLICATION OF THE UNIFIED MODELING LANGUAGE IN

MANUFACTURING AUTOMATION
By Tom Page, G. Thorsteinsson

RESEARCH PAPERS

6 GENETIC ALGORITHM'S FITNESS VALUE AND FALSE POSITIVE IN NETWORK INTRUSION

DETECTION SYSTEM
By S. Jeya

12 HYBRID WIRED/WIRELESS PROFIBUS TIMING ANALYSIS UNDER TRANSIENT FAULTS

By Saad H. Al-tak, Sufyan T. Faraj

23 WLAN BASED INDOOR AND OUTDOOR LOCATION DETERMINATION SYSTEM USING

MESH- LOIDS
By K. Krishna Naik, M.N. Giri Prasad

30 BANDWIDTH OPTIMIZATION THROUGH MULTI-SOURCE VIRTUAL DYNAMIC ROUTING

ALGORITHM IN ATM NETWORKS
By A. Subramani, A. Krishnan

39 EFFICIENT DYNAMIC-ID BASED PASSWORD AUTHENTICATED KEY AGREEMENT USING SMART

CARDS WITHOUT TIME CONCURRENCY
By C. Shoba Bindu, P. Chandra Sekhar Reddy, B. Satya Narayana

45 COVERT ENCRYPTION AND DOCUMENT AUTHENTICATION USING TEXTURE CODING

By J. M. Blackledge, M. L. Hallot

66 REMOTE USER AUTHENTICATION USING COGNITION BASED GRAPHICAL PASSWORDS

By Raj Mohammed, C. Shoba Bindu, P. Chandra Sekhar, B. Satya Narayana

72 FUZZY LOGIC INTEGRATION IN THE MULTI-CRITERIA SUPPORT DECISION

By Raouf Ketata, Hajer Ben Mahmoud, Taieb Ben

CONFERENCES AROUND THE GLOBE

83 CONFERENCES AROUND THE GLOBE

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By
RAJ MOHAMMED* C. SHOBA BINDU** P. CHANDRA SEKHAR*** B. SATYA NARAYANA****
ABSTRACT
In general, alphanumeric passwords are used for remote user authentication. But, these are vulnerable to security and
usability problems. To solve these problems, Wei-chi-ku et. al. proposed “Remote user authentication scheme using
strong Graphical passwords” which are not resistant to shoulder-surfing attack, a critical problem of graphical
passwords. This paper presents a Dynamic ID-based remote user authentication scheme which is resistant to shoulder
surfing attack and it also achieves mutual authentication. This paper also makes a comparison of usability and security
aspects of the proposed scheme with Wei-chi-ku et al. Scheme.
Keywords: Authentication, Graphical Password, Shoulder-surfing attack.

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Figure 1. Proposed Scheme which is resistant

to shoulder Surfing

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S. Characteristics Wei-chi-Ku Proposed

No et al. Scheme
Scheme

1. Graphical Draw A Proposed

password scheme Secret Scheme
(recall (Cognition
based) Based)

2. Type off Static ID Dynamic ID

Authentication based based

3. Shoulder-Surfing Yes No
Problem

4. Verifier table at Yes No

Remote end

5. Number of Hash 13H-LP 8 H-LP

functions 5 H-RP 2 H-RP

6. Two factor
Authentication No Yes
(Smart Cards)

7. Password change No Yes

phase

8. Mutual No Yes
Authentication

Table 1. Comparison of the proposed scheme with

Wei-chi-ku et.al scheme

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