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Strengthening Zero-Interaction Authentication Using Contextual Co-presence Detection

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dc.date.accessioned 2014-06-03T12:20:45Z und
dc.date.accessioned 2017-10-24T12:23:50Z
dc.date.available 2014-06-03T12:20:45Z und
dc.date.available 2017-10-24T12:23:50Z
dc.date.issued 2014-06-03T12:20:45Z
dc.identifier.uri http://radr.hulib.helsinki.fi/handle/10138.1/3766 und
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10138.1/3766
dc.title Strengthening Zero-Interaction Authentication Using Contextual Co-presence Detection en
ethesis.discipline Computer science en
ethesis.discipline Tietojenkäsittelytiede fi
ethesis.discipline Datavetenskap sv
ethesis.discipline.URI http://data.hulib.helsinki.fi/id/1dcabbeb-f422-4eec-aaff-bb11d7501348
ethesis.department.URI http://data.hulib.helsinki.fi/id/225405e8-3362-4197-a7fd-6e7b79e52d14
ethesis.department Institutionen för datavetenskap sv
ethesis.department Department of Computer Science en
ethesis.department Tietojenkäsittelytieteen laitos fi
ethesis.faculty Matematisk-naturvetenskapliga fakulteten sv
ethesis.faculty Matemaattis-luonnontieteellinen tiedekunta fi
ethesis.faculty Faculty of Science en
ethesis.faculty.URI http://data.hulib.helsinki.fi/id/8d59209f-6614-4edd-9744-1ebdaf1d13ca
ethesis.university.URI http://data.hulib.helsinki.fi/id/50ae46d8-7ba9-4821-877c-c994c78b0d97
ethesis.university Helsingfors universitet sv
ethesis.university University of Helsinki en
ethesis.university Helsingin yliopisto fi
dct.creator Gao, Xiang
dct.issued 2014
dct.language.ISO639-2 eng
dct.abstract Designing systems that balance security and usability is a desirable but challenging goal. Zero-Interaction Authentication (ZIA) is one example of an effort for making security easy to use. It attempts to improve usability by avoiding explicit user interaction for the authentication process, but instead resorting to automatically determining if the principals are co-present. Nevertheless, current ZIA models, which detect co-presence by measuring observed signal strengths in some form of local wireless communication, suffer from relay attacks, where attackers fool the principals by relaying the authentication messages even if the messages exchanged in the authentication protocols are cryptographically secured. Contextual Co-presence Detection is an alternative technique to detect co-presence. The main idea is that co-present principals should observe similar ambient context. Although prior work has studied the use of single sensor modalities (audio, Bluetooth, GPS and WiFi) for perceiving ambient context, there were (a) no fair comparisons of how different sensor modalities perform and (b) no studies about whether fusing multiple sensor modalities would increase performance. In this thesis, we built a data collection framework that allowed an individual user to easily collect ground truth data about co-presence of a pair of devices. We applied standard classification techniques to this data. Our results demonstrate WiFi (the set of visible WiFi access points and their respective signal strengths) and that fusing multiple sensor modalities improves performance in terms of security and usability. We then extended a real ZIA application (BlueProximity) with support for contextual co-presence detection, and conducted a small-scale user study to evaluate the usability of contextual co-presence detection as compared to co-presence detection using signal strength only. Our study did not find evidence that the addition of contextual co-presence may harm usability. en
dct.language en
ethesis.language.URI http://data.hulib.helsinki.fi/id/languages/eng
ethesis.language English en
ethesis.language englanti fi
ethesis.language engelska sv
ethesis.thesistype pro gradu-avhandlingar sv
ethesis.thesistype pro gradu -tutkielmat fi
ethesis.thesistype master's thesis en
ethesis.thesistype.URI http://data.hulib.helsinki.fi/id/thesistypes/mastersthesis
dct.identifier.urn URN:NBN:fi-fe2017112252180
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