By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Life Science Weekly -- Researchers detail new data in Information Technology - Information and Data Encoding and Encryption. According to news originating from Hangzhou, People’s Republic of China, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “The traditional username/password or PIN based authentication scheme, which still remains the most popular form of authentication, has been proved insecure, unmemorable and vulnerable to guessing, dictionary attack, key-logger, shoulder-surfing and social engineering. Based on this, a large number of new alternative methods have recently been proposed.”
Financial supporters for this research include National Natural Science Foundation of China, Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province.
Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from Hangzhou Dianzi University, “However, most of them rely on users being able to accurately recall complex and unmemorable information or using extra hardware (such as a USB Key), which makes authentication more difficult and confusing. In this paper, we propose a Digital Memories based user authentication scheme adopting homomorphic encryption and a public key encryption design which can protect users’ privacy effectively, prevent tracking and provide multi-level security in an Internet & IoT environment.”
According to the news editors, the research concluded: “Also, we prove the superior reliability and security of our scheme compared to other schemes and present a performance analysis and promising evaluation results.”
For more information on this research see: A digital memories based user authentication scheme with privacy preservation. Plos One , 2017;12(11):e0186925. (Public Library of Science - www.plos.org; Plos One - www.plosone.org)
The news correspondents report that additional information may be obtained from J. Liu, School of Cyberspace Security, Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hangzhou, ZheJiang, People’s Republic of China. Additional authors for this research include Q. Lyu, Q. Wang and X. Yu.
The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0186925. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.
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CITATION: (2018-01-02), New Findings from Hangzhou Dianzi University Describe Advances in Information and Data Encoding and Encryption (A digital memories based user authentication scheme with privacy preservation), Life Science Weekly, 132, ISSN: 1552-2474, BUTTER® ID: 014912792
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