Output details
13 - Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Metallurgy and Materials
University of Plymouth
Article title
Authentication Aura - A distributed approach to
user authentication
Type
D - Journal article
DOI
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Title of journal
Journal of Information Assurance and Security
Article number
n/a
Volume number
6
Issue number
2
First page of article
149
ISSN of journal
1554-1010
Year of publication
2011
Number of additional authors
3
Additional information
IT users can find the demands for repeated re-authentication across numerous devices highly inconvenient to the extent that they compromise the safeguards. Our concept, authentication aura, arose out of work on mobile device security with Orange/France-Telecom (who have supported our related research with £110K+ of funding). Recognising that a user’s various devices may offer distinct authentication mechanisms of different strengths, we propose a new approach that reduces explicit user involvement by sharing authentication information between devices. The resulting ‘aura’ is an adaptive security envelope based upon the intelligent aggregation of the collective inputs.
Interdisciplinary
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Cross-referral requested
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Research group
None
Proposed double-weighted
No
Double-weighted statement
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Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
No
English abstract
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