A Scheme for Secure Storage and Retrieval of (ID, Password) Pairs Using Smart Cards as Secure and Portable Storages 


Vol. 39,  No. 6, pp. 333-340, Jun.  2014


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Despite the security weakness of reusing passwords, many Internet users are likely to use a single ID and password on various sites to avoid the inconvenience of remembering multiple credentials. This paper proposes a scheme for securely storing, retrieving, and updating randomly chosen (ID, password) pairs by using smart cards as secure and portable storages. The scheme makes a user free from remembering her (ID, password) pairs for Internet accesses. By splitting and scattering the (ID, password) pairs of a user across the user"s smart card memory and a remote server"s storage, it can protect the logon credentials even from the theft or loss of the smart card. Also, a user, if deemed necessary, can issue and let the server to delete all information belonging to the user. Hence even an attacker who cracked the smart card memory would not be able to obtain any (ID, password) pair of the victim thereafter. The scheme requires a user to input a site information and pass-phrase to her smart card to obtain the logon credentials, but it should be an acceptable overhead considering the benefits of not remembering the freely chosen (ID, password) pairs at all.

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[IEEE Style]

J. Park, "A Scheme for Secure Storage and Retrieval of (ID, Password) Pairs Using Smart Cards as Secure and Portable Storages," The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences, vol. 39, no. 6, pp. 333-340, 2014. DOI: .

[ACM Style]

Jun-Cheol Park. 2014. A Scheme for Secure Storage and Retrieval of (ID, Password) Pairs Using Smart Cards as Secure and Portable Storages. The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences, 39, 6, (2014), 333-340. DOI: .

[KICS Style]

Jun-Cheol Park, "A Scheme for Secure Storage and Retrieval of (ID, Password) Pairs Using Smart Cards as Secure and Portable Storages," The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences, vol. 39, no. 6, pp. 333-340, 6. 2014.

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