On the Design of Challenge Question Systems

  • Authors:
  • Mike Just

  • Affiliations:
  • Public Works and Government Services Canada

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Security and Privacy
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

The author describes a framework for designing user authentication systems with challenge questions that includes privacy, security, and usability criteria for evaluating a candidate challenge-question system. The proposed challenge-question system for recovering user credentials is based on this framework.