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Title:
On the Security of PAS (Predicate-based Authentication Service)
Authors: Shujun Li, Hassan Jameel Asghar, Josef Pieprzyk, Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, Roland Schmitz, Huaxiong Wang
Abstract:Recently a new human authentication scheme called PAS (predicate-based authentication service) was proposed, which does not require the assistance of any supplementary device. The main security claim of PAS is to resist passive adversaries who can observe the whole authentication session between the human user and the remote server. In this paper we give a detailed security analysis of PAS and show that PAS is insecure against both brute force attack and a probabilistic attack. In particular we show that the security of PAS against brute force attack was strongly overestimated. Furthermore, we introduce a probabilistic attack, which can break part of the password even with a very small number of observed authentication sessions. Although the proposed attack cannot completely break the password, it can downgrade the PAS system to a much weaker system similar to common OTP (one-time password) systems.
ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2009/476
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