Title :
Strengthening SMS-Based Authentication through Usability
Author :
Alzomai, M. ; Jøsang, Audun ; McCullagh, Adrian ; Foo, Ernest
Author_Institution :
Queensland Univ. of Technol., Brisbane, QLD
Abstract :
Current state-of-the art solutions for online banking authentication and identity management include methods for re-authenticating users via out-of-band channels for each transaction. SMS-based schemes belong to this category, and can provide strong authentication to protect against security attacks. Poor usability of these schemes is still a problem, which makes them vulnerable to other obvious attacks. This paper describes a method for improving the usability of typical SMS-based authentication schemes which thereby will improve their overall security.
Keywords :
banking; message authentication; SMS-based authentication; identity management; online banking authentication; security attacks; Australia; Authentication; Authorization; Banking; Data security; Distributed processing; IP networks; Land mobile radio cellular systems; Mobile handsets; Usability; Security; authentication; authorization; identity management; online banking; usability;
Conference_Titel :
Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications, 2008. ISPA '08. International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Sydney, NSW
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3471-8
DOI :
10.1109/ISPA.2008.57
