Title :
Feasibility of a Socially Aware Authentication Scheme
Author :
Frankel, Andrew Dathan ; Maheswaran, Muthucumaru
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Comput. Sci., McGill Univ., Montreal, QC
Abstract :
Social interaction is already a proven component of informal identification: humans are naturally skilled at recognizing other people and are unlikely to be duped by impersonation. Based on this premise, a fourth-factor, someone-you-know, has already been proposed as an emergency authentication method. This paper explores leveraging a user´s preexisting social actions as a primary authentication tool, one that operates transparently and automatically without explicit user guidance. Specifically, we describe the feasibility of capturing a user´s local social context using short range wireless devices and evaluate the uniqueness of that context in comparison to that of possible aggressors.
Keywords :
message authentication; mobile radio; telecommunication security; emergency authentication method; explicit user guidance; mobile networks; short range wireless devices; socially aware authentication scheme; Authentication; Biometrics; Bluetooth; Communication system security; Computer science; Humans; Protection; Robustness; Social network services; Technology social factors;
Conference_Titel :
Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, 2009. CCNC 2009. 6th IEEE
Conference_Location :
Las Vegas, NV
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2308-8
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2309-5
DOI :
10.1109/CCNC.2009.4784910