Enhancing cardspace authentication using a mobile device

  • Authors:
  • Haitham S. Al-Sinani;Chris J. Mitchell

  • Affiliations:
  • Information Security Group, Royal Holloway, University of London;Information Security Group, Royal Holloway, University of London

  • Venue:
  • DBSec'11 Proceedings of the 25th annual IFIP WG 11.3 conference on Data and applications security and privacy
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

In this paper we propose a simple, novel scheme for using a mobile device to enhance CardSpace authentication. During the process of user authentication on a PC using CardSpace, a random and shortlived one-time password is sent to the user's mobile device; this must then be entered into the PC by the user when prompted. The scheme does not require any changes to login servers, the CardSpace identity selector, or to the mobile device itself. We specify the scheme and give details of a proof-of-concept prototype. Security and operational analyses are also provided.