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Risk Analysis of the Discoverability of Personal Data Used for Primary and Secondary Authentication.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Risk Analysis of the Discoverability of Personal Data Used for Primary and Secondary Authentication./
Author:	Richards, Kirsten Esther.
Description:	1 online resource (284 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-10(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International78-10A(E).
Subject:	Information science. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9781369807530

Risk Analysis of the Discoverability of Personal Data Used for Primary and Secondary Authentication.
Richards, Kirsten Esther.

Risk Analysis of the Discoverability of Personal Data Used for Primary and Secondary Authentication. - 1 online resource (284 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-10(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)

Includes bibliographical references

Personal data are frequently leveraged to create passwords for password based authentication systems. Personal data are also used in secondary authentication systems, particularly those based around a question and answer format. The use of personal data in authenticators is believed to be driven, to some degree, by usability. The antinomic proposition of usable system authentication, an easily remembered and usable scheme for the proper user which is simultaneously unknown and unusable to any other entity, historically proves to be an elusive goal. While alternative propositions for authentication protocols are numerous, lacking in literature is foundational work directly relating potential authenticators with the discoverability of personal data online. This dissertation investigates the discoverability of personal data, particularly whether another human is able to purposefully find particular personal data commonly used in authentication protocols. Between fifty and sixty participants provide search results for specific personal data regarding four additional participants. The four participants acted as a source for the personal data, consented to the web search and validated the accuracy of data supplied by the data seeking participants. Analyses of the results reveals consistent patterns in the personal data discovered. The results lay a foundation for the improvement of current authentication systems and provide a significant step in both methodology and recommendations to guide the development of alternatives with a goal towards the creation of usable, secure authentication systems. Furthermore, the results provide insight into the nature of privacy, user control of data and the availability of personal data on Web sources.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9781369807530Subjects--Topical Terms:

561178
Information science.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

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