TY - GEN
T1 - A single-factor dynamic authentication for computer systems with touch screens
AU - Liou, Jing Chiou
AU - Conway, Jack
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© ISCA, SEDE 2014.
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Today, most of the computer users still rely on singlefactor static authentication, which only requires a pair of username/password for the user to log into the system. However, more and more severe security breaches in each year prompt us that we need to develop a better authentication mechanism. One solution is to adopt the multi-factor authentication. However, it is financially not possible to implement multi-factor, even just two-factor, authentication for all the computer users. In this paper, we propose a single-factor dynamic authentication (SiFaDA) that relies on a virtual one-time password (VOTP) technique to achieve best security level similar to any OTP techniques for computer systems with touch screens. It requires a single-factor, but transmits an OTP produced by an agent installed in the client computer to the server for dynamic authentication. Thus, this technique will significantly increase security, same as any OTP techniques, but dramatically reduce the negative issues in deployment complexity in all multi-factor authentication techniques.
AB - Today, most of the computer users still rely on singlefactor static authentication, which only requires a pair of username/password for the user to log into the system. However, more and more severe security breaches in each year prompt us that we need to develop a better authentication mechanism. One solution is to adopt the multi-factor authentication. However, it is financially not possible to implement multi-factor, even just two-factor, authentication for all the computer users. In this paper, we propose a single-factor dynamic authentication (SiFaDA) that relies on a virtual one-time password (VOTP) technique to achieve best security level similar to any OTP techniques for computer systems with touch screens. It requires a single-factor, but transmits an OTP produced by an agent installed in the client computer to the server for dynamic authentication. Thus, this technique will significantly increase security, same as any OTP techniques, but dramatically reduce the negative issues in deployment complexity in all multi-factor authentication techniques.
KW - Dynamic authentication
KW - Encryption
KW - Multi-factor authentication
KW - One-time password
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84913580331
T3 - 23rd International Conference on Software Engineering and Data Engineering, SEDE 2014
SP - 31
EP - 36
BT - 23rd International Conference on Software Engineering and Data Engineering, SEDE 2014
A2 - Ding, Ling
A2 - Shi, Yan
PB - International Society of Computers and Their Applications (ISCA)
T2 - 23rd International Conference on Software Engineering and Data Engineering, SEDE 2014
Y2 - 13 October 2014 through 15 October 2014
ER -