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With increasing reliance on new and interactive technologies, a challenge producers face is the requirement of a secure system to control users of their cooperative designs or applications to reap economic benefit. An authentication code is the series of letters and numbers, often disclosed after purchasing a product or service and that allows access for that user. This paper provides insight into the generation and verification of existing authentication codes and proposes a new scheme, which uses cryptography to embed mathematical structure within the codes to better protect cooperative applications. The proposed method uses a changing key based on a secret key and a random number, and symmetrical block cipher.
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The first and third authors would like to thank the Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences for the Start-Up Funding 231050500.
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Li, M., Susilo, W., Tonien, J. (2016). Securing Shared Systems. In: Luo, Y. (eds) Cooperative Design, Visualization, and Engineering. CDVE 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9929. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46771-9_26
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