Enhanced Three Factor Security Protocol for Storage Devices
T. Jenitha1, S. Amutha2, I. Shri Ram3
1T. Jenitha, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Mepco Schlenk Engineering College, Sivakasi (Tamil Nadu), India.
2S. Amutha, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Mepco Schlenk Engineering College, Sivakasi (Tamil Nadu), India.
3I. Shri Ram, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Mepco Schlenk Engineering College, Sivakasi (Tamil Nadu), India.
Manuscript received on 22 April 2019 | Revised Manuscript received on 01 May 2019 | Manuscript Published on 08 May 2019 | PP: 81-84 | Volume-7 Issue-5S3 February 2019 | Retrieval Number: E11150275S19/19©BEIESP
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Abstract: The Universal Serial Bus (USB) is eshtabilised for connection, communication and power supply between peripherals, also acts as an extremely popular interface standard for computer peripheral connections and is widely used in consumer Mass Storage Devices (MSDs). Eventhough current consumer USB MSDs provide relatively high transmission speed and are convenient to carry, the use of USB MSDs has been prohibited in many commercial and everyday applications primarily due to security problems. Security protocols have been previously proposed and a recent approach for the USB MSDs is to utilize multi-factor authentication. This paper proposes significant enhancements to the three-factor control protocol such as user identity, password and one-time-password (OTP) being sent to the e-mail that now makes it secure under many types of attacks including the password guessing attack, denial of-service attack, and the replay attack. The proposed solution is given with a rigorous security analysis and practical computational cost analysis to demonstrate the usefulness of this new security protocol for consumer USB MSD.
Keywords: USB, MSD, Password Guessing Attack, ECC, OTP.
Scope of the Article: Storage-Area Networks