An authentication mechanism for nomadic computing users |
Kenni Lund
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| Abstract | Hospitals and nomadic computing environments in general are known to have issues with password-based authentication, as the authentication method isn't suitable for the environment. When moving between many different computers throughout a workday, it has a negative impact on the usability.
In this project I'll propose a solution to the usability issues seen in nomadic computing environments in relation to authentication. The proposed solution is a multi-factor authentication system that requires minimal interaction from the users, and supports session migration. The system is using RFID as the ownership-based authentication factor and a webcam for face recognition, as the inherence-based authentication factor. The proposed solution will be implemented as a prototype in a Microsoft Windows environment, based on the technologies available in Windows 7 clients and Windows 2008 Server. |
| Type | Master's thesis [Academic thesis] |
| Year | 2011 |
| Publisher | Technical University of Denmark, Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science |
| Address | Richard Petersens Plads, Building 324, DK-2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark, compute@compute.dtu.dk |
| Series | DTU Compute M.Sc.-2011-23 |
| Note | DTU supervisor: Christian D. Jensen, cdje@dtu.dk, DTU Compute |
| Electronic version(s) | [pdf] |
| Publication link | http://www.compute.dtu.dk/english |
| BibTeX data | [bibtex] |
| IMM Group(s) | Computer Science & Engineering |