An Hybrid Text-Image Based Authentication for Cloud Services
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| Title | An Hybrid Text-Image Based Authentication for Cloud Services |
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| Abstract | The problem of securing access to the online information is acute today when accessto bank accounts, health records, intellectual property and business or politically sensitiveinformation are made by only a few clicks, regardless of geographic location.At the same time, more and more of these accesses are made from handsets. CloudComputing is eminently suitable for addressing problems related to limited clientresources, as it offloads computation from clients and offers dynamic provisioningof compute resources. Authentication of the companys users to the cloud service ismandatory because in this way it is eliminated the attacks risks to enter into the Cloudservices. A suitable authentication is required for organizations that want to accessthe Cloud services. Our solution regards increasing security at the Security AccessPoint level of Cloud Computing and it is in fact a strong hybrid user authenticationsolution based on using image combined with text in order to avoid the weakness ofsimple user and password solution for authentication. A two factor password imagebased authentication method is proposed in this paper for cloud services. This authenticationapproach is used without additional hardware involved and presents theadvantages of utilization in terms of security and usability. Every time when the userwill be asked to provide his/her identity, a form for each image included in the photowill be listed. The user will have to remember the secret code for each image andto carefully introduce them in the forms. The global cloud access solution will bebased on our hybrid proposed text-image based solution, and will be completed bythe X.509 certificates. |
| Publisher | Agora University of Oradea |
| Date | 2013-02-18 |
| Source | International Journal of Computers Communications & Control Vol 8, No 2 (2013): INT J COMPUT COMMUN |
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