A Lightweight Authentication Scheme for Mobile Cloud Computing

The ABI Research believes that the number of mobile cloud computing users is expected to grow from 42.8 million (1.1% of total mobile users) in 2008 to 998 million (19% of total mobile users) in 2014. The security risks have become a hurdle in the rapid adaptability of the mobile cloud computing technology. Significant efforts have been devoted in research organizations and academia to securing the mobile cloud computing technology. In this paper we proposed a lightweight authentication protocol for mobile cloud environment. Our proposed protocol has many advantages such as: supporting user anonymity, local authentication and also resistance against related attacks such as replay attack, stolen verifier attack, modification attack, server spoofing attack and so on.