TOWARDS USER AUTHENTICATION FLEXIBILITY

Laurent Gomez, Ivonne Thomas

2007

Abstract

In order to gain access to a resource protected by an authorization service, a user can be required to authenticate. Traditionally, user authentication is performed by means of a combination of authentication factors, statically specified in the access control policy of the authorization service. In this paper, we propose to improve the flexibility of user authentication by enabling to authenticate using authentication factors at his disposal. Authentication factor are any piece of information used to assess the identity of a user. Capitalizing on opinion metric from subjective logic (Josang, 2001), the authorization service specifies an authentication level to be reached in order to gain access to a resource.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Gomez L. and Thomas I. (2007). TOWARDS USER AUTHENTICATION FLEXIBILITY . In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Security and Cryptography - Volume 1: SECRYPT, (ICETE 2007) ISBN 978-989-8111-12-8, pages 59-66. DOI: 10.5220/0002122400590066

in Bibtex Style

@conference{secrypt07,
author={Laurent Gomez and Ivonne Thomas},
title={TOWARDS USER AUTHENTICATION FLEXIBILITY},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Security and Cryptography - Volume 1: SECRYPT, (ICETE 2007)},
year={2007},
pages={59-66},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002122400590066},
isbn={978-989-8111-12-8},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Security and Cryptography - Volume 1: SECRYPT, (ICETE 2007)
TI - TOWARDS USER AUTHENTICATION FLEXIBILITY
SN - 978-989-8111-12-8
AU - Gomez L.
AU - Thomas I.
PY - 2007
SP - 59
EP - 66
DO - 10.5220/0002122400590066