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Attacks on “a provably secure and efficient authentication scheme for access control in mobile pay-TV systems”

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Mobile pay-TV systems represent an application of important electronic commerce, providing mobile users with the multimedia services. In 2016, Farash and Attari employed the elliptic curves and bilinear pairing technologies to design a one-to-many authentication scheme for mobile pay-TV systems. They claimed that their scheme provides a high level of efficiency and can resist most attacks on mobile pay-TV systems. In this paper, we point out their scheme cannot achieve the fundamental requirement of authentication that is, the mutual authentication. In addition, their scheme still suffers from three security weaknesses.

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  1. Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, Feng Chia University, No. 100 Wenhwa Rd., Seatwen, Taichung 407, Taiwan, Republic of China

    Hsiao-Ling Wu & Chin-Chen Chang

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Wu, HL., Chang, CC. Attacks on “a provably secure and efficient authentication scheme for access control in mobile pay-TV systems”. Multimed Tools Appl 77, 1525–1535 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-017-4377-7

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