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Mobile User Authentication System for E-commerce Applications.

Molla, Rania; Romdhani, Imed; Buchanan, William J; Fadel, Etimad Y

Authors

Rania Molla

Etimad Y Fadel



Abstract

E-commerce applications provide on-line clients and merchants with a quick and convenient way to exchange goods and services. However, the deployment of these applications is still facing many problems such as security threats; and on-line attacks. These often cause users to be concerned about their own privacy and encourage them to stop using on-line methods. Thus, a number of on-line authentication technologies and methods have been developed in order to authenticate users and merchants, verify their identities, and therefore overcome e-commerce security threats. Although
stand-alone authentication solutions have been successful in
authenticating legitimate clients and in defeating on-line attacks,
they are often weak in overcoming the Man-In-The-Browser
(MITB) attack, which is a type of Internet threat that infects a
web-browser in a concealed fashion, and is invisible to both client
and host applications. This paper presents a Mobile User
Authentication System (MUAS) that uses QR code technology to
authenticate on-line users, through a challenge/response protocol.
Based on this mechanism, the system integrates different
authentication technologies and methods to provide an improved
and secure on-line user and merchant authentication system that
overcomes MITB attack, without compromising usability and
ubiquity.

Citation

Molla, R., Romdhani, I., Buchanan, W. J., & Fadel, E. Y. (2014, June). Mobile User Authentication System for E-commerce Applications. Paper presented at International Conference on Advanced Networking, Distributed Systems and Applications 2014

Presentation Conference Type Conference Paper (unpublished)
Conference Name International Conference on Advanced Networking, Distributed Systems and Applications 2014
Start Date Jun 17, 2014
End Date Jun 19, 2014
Publication Date 2014
Deposit Date Apr 24, 2014
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Book Title International Conference on Advanced Networking, Distributed Systems and Applications 2014
Keywords Authentication; Man-In-The-Browser attack(MITB); QR code; Out-Of-Band communication channel (OOB).
Public URL http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/6850

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