Enhancing Security by Embedding Biometric Data in IP Header

Authors:
Dae Sung Lee;Ki Chang Kim;Year Back Yoo
Affiliations:
School of Computer Science & Engineering, Inha Univ., Korea;School of Information and Communication Engineering, Inha Univ., Korea;Computer Science Department, Montana State University, U.S.A.
Venue:
SOFSEM '07 Proceedings of the 33rd conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science
Year:
2007

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Abstract

Using a public key certificate for authentication purpose is vulnerable to MIM attack or certificate theft. In this study, we suggest a technique to embed the user's biometric data in all packets for a strong authentication. By authenticating each and every packet with the user's biometric data, we can completely remove the possibility of MIM or session hijacking attack. The embedding of biometric data starts from the very first SYN packet, thereby nullifying port scanning or SYN-flooding DOS attack. The system has been implemented and shows that it can achieve an enhanced security with tolerable increase in packet length.