AuthenLink: A User-Centred Authentication System for a Secure Mobile Commerce

Christina Braz, Esma Aïmeur

2004

Abstract

We envision an environment where humans communicate directly with computers without additional authentication inputs like passwords, passphrases, PINs (Personal Identification Numbers), biometrics, or other existent authentication systems; and where humans network (intercommunicate) continually with wireless (mobile) devices. In this paper, we propose a new mobile authentication system, not yet implemented, called “AuthenLink”, coupled with a new approach to distinguishing characteristics to authenticate people (authentication factor): something you CONVEY. The utmost purpose of this paper is to provide an ease, user-centred and acceptable security authentication system against fraud, counterfeit, and theft for the mobile commerce (m-Commerce) domain, more specifically for mobile devices. Our authentication system achieves its goal through a microprocessor chip (ChipTag) computer implanted under human skin. This ChipTag is able to authenticate user’s access to systems, connect them wirelessly, through the Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology, and enable mobile devices perform mobile transactions, access files, or shop online.

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in Harvard Style

Braz C. and Aïmeur E. (2004). AuthenLink: A User-Centred Authentication System for a Secure Mobile Commerce . In Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Wireless Information Systems - Volume 1: WIS, (ICEIS 2004) ISBN 972-8865-02-3, pages 1-11. DOI: 10.5220/0002660000010011


in Bibtex Style

@conference{wis04,
author={Christina Braz and Esma Aïmeur},
title={AuthenLink: A User-Centred Authentication System for a Secure Mobile Commerce},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Wireless Information Systems - Volume 1: WIS, (ICEIS 2004)},
year={2004},
pages={1-11},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002660000010011},
isbn={972-8865-02-3},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Wireless Information Systems - Volume 1: WIS, (ICEIS 2004)
TI - AuthenLink: A User-Centred Authentication System for a Secure Mobile Commerce
SN - 972-8865-02-3
AU - Braz C.
AU - Aïmeur E.
PY - 2004
SP - 1
EP - 11
DO - 10.5220/0002660000010011