Password authentication contains a lot of assumptions about security and trust. Encrypted SSH tunnels and public key verification are two common ways to ensure that your password is not compromised in ...

In the current state there are many authentication schemes and most of these suffer from many weaknesses. Some of them are based on the physical and behavioral properties of the user, and some others ...

Human relationships rely on trust, which is why the true history of authentication extends back long before the first written documents referencing it. I suspect that as early as humans formed tribes, ...

Human being can remember graphical notations & signs, very easily & for a long time. This paper is to build a mechanism for password so that the users’ password become more secure, remembering ...

If you run a publicly accessible Web server for your own use (and let's face it, if you're reading Linux Journal, there's a very good chance you do), how do you go about limiting the risk of someone ...

If you've been paying even the slightest bit of attention to tech news these past few years, you're aware that there have been many high-profile security breaches. Now, computer scientists at Hong ...

Passwords – devising them, remembering them, typing them in – can be a hassle for users, but polls on whether users would be willing to use alternative authentication methods are all over the place.

Of all the things which are annoying about the modern World Wide Web, the need to create and remember countless passwords is on the top of most people’s lists. From dozens of passwords for everything ...

IEEE 802.1X is a standard that defines how to provide authentication for devices that connect with other devices on local area networks (LANs). It provides a mechanism by which network switches and ...