Dos and don'ts of client authentication on the web

Proceedings of the 10th USENIX Security Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages

  Fu, Kevin ^a   Sit, Emil ^a   Smith, Kendra ^a   Feamster, Nick ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTHENTICATION; WEBSITES;

ACTIVE ADVERSARY; AUTHENTICATION SCHEME; CLIENT AUTHENTICATION; DESIGN AND ANALYSIS; ENTERPRISE ENVIRONMENT; SECURITY MODEL; UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS; WEB COOKIES;

CRYPTOGRAPHY;

EID: 85084161244     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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