AMutual Authentication Protocol with Smart Cards

One of the main development criteria in each country is the growth of national or sub-national electronic systems of management and control. Preserving information security and trust in untrustedaccess to such networks, is one of the main purposes of passive defense. One of the most common samples of such networks is E-banking where providing the user’s information security is a very essential goal. Since the authentication protocols are crucial in any electronic system, they perform a very important role in providing secure communication. In this paper, while introducing a password-based mutual authentication protocol, we will demonstrate that such a protocol is applicable in smart card technology. Also we will show that the proposed scheme regarding resistance to common attacks, has better behavior in the view of both security and performance requirements.