Biblio

Modern learning systems, say a tutoring platform, has many characteristics like digital data presentation with interactivity, mobility, which provides information about the study-content as per the learners understanding levels, intelligent learners behavior, etc. A sophisticated ubiquitous learner system maintains security and monitors the mischievous behavior of the learner, and authenticates and authorizes every learner, which is quintessential. Some of the existing security schemes aim only at single entry-point authentication, which may not suit to ubiquitous tutor platform. We propose a secured authentication scheme which is based on the information utility of the learner. Whenever a learner moves into a tutor platform, which has ubiquitous learner system technology, the system at first-begins with learners' identity authentication, and then it initiates trust evaluation after the successful authentication of the learner. Periodic credential verification of the learner will be carried out, which intensifies the authentication scheme of the system proposed. BAN logic has been used to prove the authentication in this system. The proposed authentication scheme has been simulated and analyzed for the indoor tutor platform environment.

Remote user authentication is an essential process to provide services securely during accessing on-line applications where its aim is to find out the legitimacy of an user. The traditional password based remote user authentication is quite popular and widely used but such schemes are susceptible to dictionary attack. To enhance the system security, numerous password based remote user authentication schemes using smartcard have been submitted. However, most of the schemes proposed are either computationally expensive or vulnerable to several kinds of known attacks. In this paper, the authors have developed a two factor based remote user authentication scheme using ElGamal cryptosystem. The validity of the proposed scheme is also confirmed through BAN logic. Besides that authors have done security analysis and compared with related schemes which proclaim that the proposed scheme is able to resist against several kinds of known attacks effectively. The proposed scheme is also simulated with AVISPA tool and expected outcome is achieved where it ensures that the scheme is secured against some known attacks. Overall, the presented scheme is suitable, secure and applicable in any real time applications.