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			<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">INFORMATICA</journal-id>
			<journal-title-group>
				<journal-title>Informatica</journal-title>
			</journal-title-group>
			<issn pub-type="epub">0868-4952</issn>
			<issn pub-type="ppub">0868-4952</issn>
			<publisher>
				<publisher-name>VU</publisher-name>
			</publisher>
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			<article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">info21304</article-id>
			<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.15388/Informatica.2010.293</article-id>
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					<subject>Research article</subject>
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				<article-title>An Improved Securer and Efficient Nonce-Based Authentication Scheme with Token-Update</article-title>
			</title-group>
			<contrib-group>
				<contrib contrib-type="Author">
					<name>
						<surname>Liao</surname>
						<given-names>Chiu-Hsiung</given-names>
					</name>
					<email xlink:href="mailto:cliao@ncut.edu.tw">cliao@ncut.edu.tw</email>
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				</contrib>
				<contrib contrib-type="Author">
					<name>
						<surname>Wang</surname>
						<given-names>Ching-Te</given-names>
					</name>
					<email xlink:href="mailto:ctwang@ncut.edu.tw">ctwang@ncut.edu.tw</email>
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				</contrib>
				<contrib contrib-type="Author">
					<name>
						<surname>Chen</surname>
						<given-names>Hon-Chan</given-names>
					</name>
					<email xlink:href="mailto:chenhc@ncut.edu.tw">chenhc@ncut.edu.tw</email>
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				<aff id="j_INFORMATICA_aff_000">General Education Center, National Chin-Yi University of Technology, Taichung, Taiwan 411, ROC</aff>
				<aff id="j_INFORMATICA_aff_001">Department of Information Management, National Chin-Yi University of Technology, Taichung, Taiwan 411, ROC</aff>
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			<pub-date pub-type="epub">
				<day>01</day>
				<month>01</month>
				<year>2010</year>
			</pub-date>
			<volume>21</volume>
			<issue>3</issue>
			<fpage>349</fpage>
			<lpage>359</lpage>
			<history>
				<date date-type="received">
					<day>01</day>
					<month>11</month>
					<year>2008</year>
				</date>
				<date date-type="accepted">
					<day>01</day>
					<month>05</month>
					<year>2010</year>
				</date>
			</history>
			<abstract>
				<p>In this paper, we propose a mutual authentication scheme using nonce variable instead of Mac address and accompanying with token updates to improve the functionality. Lee et al. (2005a) and Shi et al. (2006) proposed the site authentication schemes by using the generating random numbers. The site authentication can identify a personal computer using LAN card's Mac address, but the Mac address is easily detected through Address Resolution Protocol in the Open Systems Interconnection model. Therefore, we propose an improved securer and efficient nonce-based authentication scheme providing mutual authentication to resist the replay attack, man-in-the-middle attack and Mac address attack.</p>
			</abstract>
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				<label>Keywords</label>
				<kwd>mutual authentication</kwd>
				<kwd>token-update</kwd>
				<kwd>Mac address</kwd>
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