Mandatory human participation: A new authentication scheme for building secure systems

Proceedings - International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, ICCCN

Volumn 2003-January, Issue , 2003, Pages 547-552

  Xu, Jun ^a   Lipton, Richard ^a   Essa, Irfan ^a   Sung, Minho ^a   Zhu, Yong ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Application software; Authentication; Character recognition; Computer crime; Computer security; Cryptographic protocols; Humans; Optical character recognition software; Optical computing; Robustness

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; AUTHENTICATION; CHARACTER RECOGNITION; COMPUTER CRIME; COMPUTER NETWORKS; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DENIAL-OF-SERVICE ATTACK; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SECURITY OF DATA; SECURITY SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS;

AUTHENTICATION SCHEME; CRYPTOGRAPHIC MEASURES; CRYPTOGRAPHIC PROTOCOLS; DENIAL OF SERVICE; HUMANS; MORPHING ALGORITHMS; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION SOFTWARE; SECURITY APPLICATION;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 84932087266     PISSN: 10952055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICCCN.2003.1284222     Document Type: Conference Paper

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