QPTA: Quantum-Safe Privacy-Preserving Multi-Factor Authentication Scheme for Lightweight Devices

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Abstract

Smart healthcare is ubiquitous to lift the convenience of managing patients’ medical records. Accessibility of patients’ sensitive data stored in medical servers needs source authenticity. To ensure this, (Karati et al., 2023) proposed a three-factor authentication scheme using physical uncolonable functions. However, the scheme is vulnerable to a quantum adversary. To this end, we design a multi-factor authentication scheme called QPTA resistant to quantum adversaries for a healthcare scenario involving a user and a medical server. QPTA enables choice within the same factor in multi-factor authentication. The security of QPTA is formally analyzed using the “Attack Detection Logic.” QPTA is safe from known attacks, including unknown key share and man-in-the-middle attacks. We perform an informal security analysis of QPTA to ensure various security goals and privacy properties, namely anonymity, unlinkability, and conditional traceability. QPTA satisfies comprehensive security features and is suitable for the post-quantum era.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 21st International Conference on Security and Cryptography, SECRYPT 2024
EditorsSabrina De Capitani Di Vimercati, Pierangela Samarati
PublisherScience and Technology Publications, Lda
Pages804-811
Number of pages8
ISBN (Electronic)9789897587092
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2024
Externally publishedYes
Event21st International Conference on Security and Cryptography, SECRYPT 2024 - Dijon, France
Duration: 8 Jul 202410 Jul 2024

Publication series

NameProceedings of the International Conference on Security and Cryptography
ISSN (Print)2184-7711

Conference

Conference21st International Conference on Security and Cryptography, SECRYPT 2024
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityDijon
Period8/07/2410/07/24

Keywords

  • Attack Detection Logic
  • Authenticated Key Agreement
  • Multi-Factor Authentication
  • Post-Quantum Authentication
  • Privacy
  • Quantum-Safe Authentication
  • Smart Healthcare
  • System Administrator

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