A new mobile-based multi-factor authentication scheme using pre-shared number, GPS location and time stamp

Author

Abdurrahman, Usman Alhaji ; Kaiiali, Mustafa ; Muhammad, Jawad

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Eng., Mevlana (Rumi) Univ., Konya, Turkey

fYear

2013

fDate

7-9 Nov. 2013

Firstpage

293

Lastpage

296

Abstract

Lots of Web accounts are being hacked everyday even though the public Web servers like Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail deploy the best-known security mechanisms. However, attacks usually happen due to personal faults. It is too difficult to hack the Gmail or Yahoo servers, but usually attackers try to gain access to user´s system itself to get some information about his password. In this paper a new mechanism of securing Web accounts is proposed to overcome these personal faults. It enhances security by generating a secret hash code based on a pre-shared number and user´s current GPS location.

Keywords

Global Positioning System; Web sites; authorisation; cryptography; mobile computing; Gmail servers; Hotmail server; Web account hacking; Web account security enhancement; Yahoo servers; mobile-based multifactor authentication scheme; personal faults; preshared number; public Web servers; secret hash code generation; time stamp; user GPS location; user password; Authentication; Biometrics (access control); Global Positioning System; Mobile handsets; Servers; Web pages; GPS; hashing algorithm; multi-factor authentication; web security;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electronics, Computer and Computation (ICECCO), 2013 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Ankara

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICECCO.2013.6718286

Filename

6718286