Host Fingerprinting for Web Servers Authentication

Ezio Lefons, Sebastiano Pizzutilo, Filippo Tangorra

2020

Abstract

Fingerprinting is a biometric technique for computing a unique profile associated to a physical person for authentication purpose. It has been successfully applied also to software entities by using hash functions for integrity checking after downloading. In the paper, we propose a fingerprinting algorithm to identify a machine during a client-server authentication process. In detail, this host identifier can be used for connecting to a database server without using an account storing a plain-text password. After the presentation of experimental results, we show some real scenarios where this solution can be applied.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Lefons E., Pizzutilo S. and Tangorra F. (2020). Host Fingerprinting for Web Servers Authentication. In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy - Volume 1: ICISSP, ISBN 978-989-758-399-5, pages 45-51. DOI: 10.5220/0008942500450051

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icissp20,
author={Ezio Lefons and Sebastiano Pizzutilo and Filippo Tangorra},
title={Host Fingerprinting for Web Servers Authentication},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy - Volume 1: ICISSP,},
year={2020},
pages={45-51},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0008942500450051},
isbn={978-989-758-399-5},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy - Volume 1: ICISSP,
TI - Host Fingerprinting for Web Servers Authentication
SN - 978-989-758-399-5
AU - Lefons E.
AU - Pizzutilo S.
AU - Tangorra F.
PY - 2020
SP - 45
EP - 51
DO - 10.5220/0008942500450051