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ICC
2008
IEEE
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13 years 10 months ago
Secret Little Functions and Codebook for Protecting Users from Password Theft
—In this paper, we discuss how to prevent users’ passwords from being stolen by adversaries. We propose differentiated security mechanisms in which a user has the freedom to ch...
Yang Xiao, Chung-Chih Li, Ming Lei, Susan V. Vrbsk...
HPCA
2006
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
InfoShield: a security architecture for protecting information usage in memory
Cyber theft is a serious threat to Internet security. It is one of the major security concerns by both network service providers and Internet users. Though sensitive information c...
Guofei Gu, Hsien-Hsin S. Lee, Joshua B. Fryman, Ju...
CRYPTO
2006
Springer
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13 years 8 months ago
Mitigating Dictionary Attacks on Password-Protected Local Storage
We address the issue of encrypting data in local storage using a key that is derived from the user's password. The typical solution in use today is to derive the key from the...
Ran Canetti, Shai Halevi, Michael Steiner
WWW
2005
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
A convenient method for securely managing passwords
Computer users are asked to generate, keep secret, and recall an increasing number of passwords for uses including host accounts, email servers, e-commerce sites, and online finan...
J. Alex Halderman, Brent Waters, Edward W. Felten
DIM
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Privacy preserving multi-factor authentication with biometrics
An emerging approach to the problem of reducing the identity theft is represented by the adoption of biometric authentication systems. Such systems however present however several...
Abhilasha Bhargav-Spantzel, Anna Cinzia Squicciari...