A single-factor dynamic authentication for computer systems with touch screens

Jing Chiou Liou, Jack Conway

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Abstract

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.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication23rd International Conference on Software Engineering and Data Engineering, SEDE 2014
EditorsLing Ding, Yan Shi
PublisherInternational Society of Computers and Their Applications (ISCA)
Pages31-36
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781880843963
StatePublished - 2014
Event23rd International Conference on Software Engineering and Data Engineering, SEDE 2014 - New Orleans, United States
Duration: 13 Oct 201415 Oct 2014

Publication series

Name23rd International Conference on Software Engineering and Data Engineering, SEDE 2014

Conference

Conference23rd International Conference on Software Engineering and Data Engineering, SEDE 2014
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityNew Orleans
Period13/10/1415/10/14

Keywords

  • Dynamic authentication
  • Encryption
  • Multi-factor authentication
  • One-time password

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