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Authentication in Insecure Environments

Using Visual Cryptography and Non-Transferable Credentials in Practise

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Authors:
  1. Sebastian Pape

    1. FB Informatik, LS 14, TU Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany

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  • Publication in the field of technical sciences

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XVI
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  2. Introduction

    • Sebastian Pape
    Pages 1-5

  3. Preliminaries

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7
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    2. Mathematical and Cryptographic Foundation

      • Sebastian Pape
      Pages 9-77

  4. Human Decipherable Encryption Schemes

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 79-79
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    2. Introduction, Scenario, and Related Work

      • Sebastian Pape
      Pages 81-86

    3. Human Decipherable Encryption Scheme

      • Sebastian Pape
      Pages 87-134

    4. Human Decipherable Encryption Schemes Based on Dice Codings

      • Sebastian Pape
      Pages 135-195

    5. Conclusion and Future Work

      • Sebastian Pape
      Pages 197-205

  5. Non-Transferable Anonymous Credentials

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 207-207
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    2. Introduction, Scenario, and Related Work

      • Sebastian Pape
      Pages 209-212

    3. Privacy and Data Security

      • Sebastian Pape
      Pages 213-227

    4. Analysis of Non-Transferable Anonymous Credentials

      • Sebastian Pape
      Pages 229-252

    5. Conclusion and Future Work

      • Sebastian Pape
      Pages 253-256

  6. Outlook and Appendix

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 257-257
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    2. Summary, Conclusion and Outlook

      • Sebastian Pape
      Pages 259-263

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 265-362
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About this book

Sebastian Pape discusses two different scenarios for authentication. On the one hand, users cannot trust their devices and nevertheless want to be able to do secure authentication. On the other hand, users may not want to be tracked while their service provider does not want them to share their credentials. Many users may not be able to determine whether their device is trustworthy, i.e. it might contain malware. One solution is to use visual cryptography for authentication. The author generalizes this concept to human decipherable encryption schemes and establishes a relationship to CAPTCHAS. He proposes a new security model and presents the first visual encryption scheme which makes use of noise to complicate the adversary's task. To prevent service providers from keeping their users under surveillance, anonymous credentials may be used. However, sometimes it is desirable to prevent the users from sharing their credentials. The author compares existing approaches based on non-transferable anonymous credentials and proposes an approach which combines biometrics and smartcards.

Reviews

“This book is based on the doctoral dissertation of Sebastian Pape … on the challenge of authentication in insecure environments. … The bibliography is exhaustive and the indexes are adequate. … This interesting and practically oriented book is well written for an audience comprising students, teachers, and practitioners of cryptography and information technology (IT) security. I strongly recommend the book for its intended audience.” (S. V. Nagaraj, Computing Reviews, October, 2015)

Authors and Affiliations

  • FB Informatik, LS 14, TU Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany

    Sebastian Pape

About the author

Dr. Sebastian Pape is postdoctoral researcher at the Chair of Software Engineering at Technical University Dortmund.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Authentication in Insecure Environments

  • Book Subtitle: Using Visual Cryptography and Non-Transferable Credentials in Practise

  • Authors: Sebastian Pape

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-07116-5

  • Publisher: Springer Vieweg Wiesbaden

  • eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden 2014

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-658-07115-8Published: 16 September 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-658-07116-5Published: 02 September 2014

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 362

  • Number of Illustrations: 40 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Data Structures and Information Theory, Information Systems and Communication Service

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