Title :
Towards Web-Based Biometric Systems Using Personal Browsing Interests
Author :
Olejnik, Lukasz ; Castelluccia, C.
Author_Institution :
INRIA, Grenoble, France
Abstract :
We investigate the potential to use browsing habits and browser history as a new authentication and identification system for the Web with potential applications to anomaly and fraud detection. For the first time, we provide an empirical analysis using data from $4,578$ users. We employ the traditional biometric analysis and show that the False Acceptance Rate can be low ($FAR=1.1%$), though this results in a relatively high False Rejection Rate ($FRR=13.8%$). The scheme may either be utilized by Web service providers (with access to user´s browser history) or any Webmaster, using other specialized techniques such as timing-based browser cache sniffing or a browser extension. We construct such a proof-of-concept extension.
Keywords :
Web services; authorisation; biometrics (access control); cache storage; fraud; online front-ends; FAR; FRR; Web service providers; Web-based biometric systems; Web-master; anomaly detection; authentication system; browser extension; empirical analysis; false acceptance rate; false rejection rate; fraud detection; identification system; timing-based browser cache sniffing; user browser history; user browsing habits; Authentication; Biometrics (access control); Browsers; Fingerprint recognition; History; Servers; Authentication; Behavioral Biometrics; Biometrics; Privacy; Web;
Conference_Titel :
Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES), 2013 Eighth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Regensburg
DOI :
10.1109/ARES.2013.36