Title :
A New Noise Mingling Approach to Protect the Authentication Password
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Inf. Security Eng., Soonchunhyang Univ., Asan, South Korea
Abstract :
This paper proposes effective countermeasures to hardware vulnerability of the keyboard controller. Through the vulnerability, some possible attacker is able to snoop the password string from the keyboard even when keyboard protection software is running. However, it will be impossible for attackers to gather the exact password if the proposed policy is applied though they can sniff the keyboard hardware protocol.
Keywords :
Internet; keyboards; security of data; authentication password protection; hardware vulnerability; keyboard controller; keyboard hardware protocol; noise mingling approach; password string; Access control; Authentication; Computer interfaces; Hardware; Kernel; Keyboards; Operating systems; Protection; Universal Serial Bus; Web and internet services; H/W vulnerability; keyboard; password expose;
Conference_Titel :
Complex, Intelligent and Software Intensive Systems (CISIS), 2010 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Krakow
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5917-9
DOI :
10.1109/CISIS.2010.185