Secure secret recovery by using weighted personal entropy

Leau , Y. B. and Dinna Nina M. N. and Habeeb S. A. H. and Jedol Dayou (2007) Secure secret recovery by using weighted personal entropy. In: Conference of the World-Academy-of-Science-Engineering-and-Technology, 14-16 December 2007 , Location: Bangkok, Thailand.

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Abstract

Authentication plays a vital role in many secure systems. Most of these systems require user to log in with his or her secret password or pass phrase before entering it. This is to ensure all the valuables information is kept confidential guaranteeing also its integrity and availability. However, to achieve this goal, users are required to memorize high entropy passwords or pass phrases. Unfortunately, this sometimes causes difficulty for user to remember meaningless strings of data. This paper presents a new scheme which assigns a weight to each personal question given to the user in revealing the encrypted secrets or password. Concentration of this scheme is to offer fault tolerance to users by allowing them to forget the specific password to a subset of questions and still recover the secret and achieve successful authentication. Comparison on level of security for weight-based and weightless secret recovery scheme is also discussed. The paper concludes with the few areas that requires more investigation in this research.

Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item (UNSPECIFIED)
Keyword: Secret recovery, Personal entropy, Cryptography, Secret sharing and key management
Subjects: Q Science > QA Mathematics
Department: SCHOOL > Labuan School of Informatics Science
Depositing User: ADMIN ADMIN
Date Deposited: 27 Sep 2011 14:14
Last Modified: 29 Dec 2014 16:34
URI: https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/1147

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