Publication Type
Conference Proceeding Article
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
5-2012
Abstract
Responsibility shifting, a popular solution used in the event of failure of primary authentication where a human helper is involved in regaining access, is vulnerable to coercion attacks. In this work, we report our user study which investigates the helper’s emotional status when being coerced to assist in an attack. Results show that the coercion causes involuntary skin conductance fluctuation on the helper, which indicates that he/she is nervous and stressed. This response can be used to strengthen the security of the authentication system by providing coercion resistance.
Keywords
Coercion resistance, biometrics, authentication
Discipline
Information Security
Research Areas
Information Security and Trust
Publication
ASIACCS '12: Proceedings of the 7th ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security
First Page
97
Last Page
98
ISBN
9781450316484
Identifier
10.1145/2414456.2414512
Publisher
ACM
Citation
GUPTA, Payas; DING, Xuhua; and GAO, Debin.
Coercion Resistance in Authentication Responsibility Shifting. (2012). ASIACCS '12: Proceedings of the 7th ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security. 97-98.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/1692
Creative Commons License
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Additional URL
http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2414456.2414512