A feasible and cost effective two-factor authentication for online transactions

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

9-17-2010

Abstract

Authentication is the process of verifying a user's identity when the user is requesting services from any secure IT system. By far, the most popular authentication is a basic username-password based method that is commonly considered to be a weak technique of authentication. A more secure method is the multi-factor authentication that verifies not only the username/password pair, but also requires a second or third unique physical or biological factor. However, the feasibility of multi-factor authentication is largely restricted by the deployment complexity and cost. In this paper, we propose a technique of two-factor authentication, called SofToken, that eases the deployment process and greatly reduces the cost, while maintaining the same level of security as achieved by current available techniques. A RFID application is also proposed to improve the portability of SofToken.

Publication Title

2nd International Conference on Software Engineering and Data Mining, SEDM 2010

First Page Number

47

Last Page Number

51

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