Confidence Value Based Multi Levels of Authentication for Ubiquitous Computing Environments (original) (raw)

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New computing paradigm in ubiquitous computing environments is revolutionizing the way people interact with computers, services and the surrounding physical spaces. However, the deployment of this computing paradigm in real-life is hindered by the lack of proper authentication and access control techniques. In order to provide stronger authentication, MIST proposed an authentication framework for ubiquitous computing environments and assigned confidence values to some authentication methods to facility the combining. However, the assigned confidence values lack sufficient evidence. In this paper reliable confidence values for each authentication method used in MIST is proposed. These confidence values can combine multiple confidence values in some manner, producing a more accurate net confidence value. Authentication entities with confidence values allows the authentication framework to blend nicely into ubiquitous computing environments.

This work was supported by the University IT Research Center Project funded by the Korean Ministry of Information and Communication.

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  1. Information Security Group, School of Information and Communication Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, 300 Cheoncheon-dong, Jangan-gu, Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-do, 440-746, Korea
    He Zheng, Jin Kwak, Kyungho Son, Wansuk Lee, Seungjoo Kim & Dongho Won
  2. Korea Information Security Agency, 78 Karak-dong, Songpa-gu, Seoul, 138-160, Korea
    Kyungho Son & Wansuk Lee

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  1. He Zheng
  2. Jin Kwak
  3. Kyungho Son
  4. Wansuk Lee
  5. Seungjoo Kim
  6. Dongho Won

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive N.W., T2N 1N4, Calgary, AB, Canada
    Marina L. Gavrilova
  2. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Perugia, via Vanvitelli, 1, I-06123, Perugia, Italy
    Osvaldo Gervasi
  3. William Norris Professor, Head of the Computer Science and Engineering Department, University of Minnesota, USA
    Vipin Kumar
  4. OptimaNumerics Ltd., Cathedral House, 23-31 Waring Street, BT1 2DX, Belfast, UK
    C. J. Kenneth Tan
  5. Clayton School of IT, Monash University, 3800, Clayton, Australia
    David Taniar
  6. Department of Chemistry, University of Perugia, Via Elce di Sotto, 8, I-06123, Perugia, Italy
    Antonio Laganá
  7. School of Computing, Soongsil University, Seoul, Korea
    Youngsong Mun
  8. School of Information and Communication Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea
    Hyunseung Choo

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Zheng, H., Kwak, J., Son, K., Lee, W., Kim, S., Won, D. (2006). Confidence Value Based Multi Levels of Authentication for Ubiquitous Computing Environments. In: Gavrilova, M.L., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications - ICCSA 2006. ICCSA 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3981. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11751588\_99

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