A New Noise Mingling Approach to Protect the Authentication Password

Author

Yim, Kangbin

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. Security Eng., Soonchunhyang Univ., Asan, South Korea

fYear

2010

fDate

15-18 Feb. 2010

Firstpage

839

Lastpage

842

Abstract

This paper proposes effective countermeasures to hardware vulnerability of the keyboard controller. Through the vulnerability, some possible attacker is able to snoop the password string from the keyboard even when keyboard protection software is running. However, it will be impossible for attackers to gather the exact password if the proposed policy is applied though they can sniff the keyboard hardware protocol.

Keywords

Internet; keyboards; security of data; authentication password protection; hardware vulnerability; keyboard controller; keyboard hardware protocol; noise mingling approach; password string; Access control; Authentication; Computer interfaces; Hardware; Kernel; Keyboards; Operating systems; Protection; Universal Serial Bus; Web and internet services; H/W vulnerability; keyboard; password expose;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Complex, Intelligent and Software Intensive Systems (CISIS), 2010 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Krakow

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5917-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CISIS.2010.185

Filename

5447494

Link To Document

https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=2077598