Email-based identification and authentication: An alternative to PKI?

IEEE Security and Privacy

Volumn 1, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 20-26

  Garfinkel, Simson L ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTHENTICATION; EMAIL-BASED IDENTIFICATION AND AUTHENTICATION (EBIA); PUBLIC KEY INFRASTRUCTURE (PKI); SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS (SSN);

CODES (STANDARDS); CODES (SYMBOLS); DATA TRANSFER; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; ELECTRONIC MAIL; PUBLIC KEY CRYPTOGRAPHY; RANDOM PROCESSES; SECURITY OF DATA;

DATA PRIVACY;

EID: 3042823619     PISSN: 15407993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MSECP.2003.1253564     Document Type: Review

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