TEMPLATE FREE BIOMETRIC E-BANKING AUTHENTICATION - More Trustworthy or False Trail?

Tim French, Raymond Brown, Marc Conrad

2010

Abstract

Identity management is an area that has proved challenging for many e-service providers such as e-banks. The problem is how to authenticate on-line consumers at the initial point of registration and also how to re-authenticate on-line customers each time they wish to access e-banking services. Hitherto, e-banks have adopted several different technological approaches to user authentication. These include traditional user passwords, as well as one-time passwords that necessitate the user operating a specialist device. In order to more fully conceptualise the area it is proposed that e-banks should classify the available and emerging using that we call a "Sign Based Identity Management" approach. One emergent solution is considered in more detail: namely template free biometric authentication. Our contribution suggests that the hitherto neglected area of biometric user authentication for e-banking may not only be more robust than existing whilst also meeting many of the requirements (security, usability, strong trust model, less vulnerable to replay attacks) of existing methods.

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in Harvard Style

French T., Brown R. and Conrad M. (2010). TEMPLATE FREE BIOMETRIC E-BANKING AUTHENTICATION - More Trustworthy or False Trail? . In Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Informatics and Semiotics in Organisations - Volume 1: ICISO, ISBN 978-989-8425-26-3, pages 111-116. DOI: 10.5220/0003267801110116


in Bibtex Style

@conference{iciso10,
author={Tim French and Raymond Brown and Marc Conrad},
title={TEMPLATE FREE BIOMETRIC E-BANKING AUTHENTICATION - More Trustworthy or False Trail?},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Informatics and Semiotics in Organisations - Volume 1: ICISO,},
year={2010},
pages={111-116},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003267801110116},
isbn={978-989-8425-26-3},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Informatics and Semiotics in Organisations - Volume 1: ICISO,
TI - TEMPLATE FREE BIOMETRIC E-BANKING AUTHENTICATION - More Trustworthy or False Trail?
SN - 978-989-8425-26-3
AU - French T.
AU - Brown R.
AU - Conrad M.
PY - 2010
SP - 111
EP - 116
DO - 10.5220/0003267801110116