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An Intrusion-Tolerant Password Authentication System
| Content Provider | CiteSeerX |
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| Author | Wang, Xunhua Heydari, M. Hossain |
| Abstract | In a password-based authentication system, to authenticate a user, a server typically stores password verification data (PVD), which is a value derived from the user’s password using publicly known functions. For those users whose passwords fall within an attacker’s dictionary, their PVDs, if stolen (for example, through server compromise), will allow the attacker to mount off-line dictionary attacks. In this article, we describe a password authentication system that can tolerate server compromises. The described system uses multiple (say n) servers to share password verification data and never reconstructs the shared PVD during user authentications. Only a threshold number (say t, t ≤ n) of these servers are required for a user authentication and compromising up to (t − 1) of these servers will not allow an attacker to mount off-line dictionary attacks, even if a user’s password falls within the attacker’s dictionary. The described system can still function if some of the servers are unavailable. In this paper, we give the system architecture and implementation details. Our experimental results show that the described system works well. The given system can be used to build intrusion-tolerant applications. |
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| Subject Keyword | Intrusion-tolerant Password Authentication System Described System User Password Off-line Dictionary Attack User Authentication Password Authentication System Shared Pvd Implementation Detail Attacker Dictionary Verification Data Threshold Number Share Password Verification Data Server Compromise Intrusion-tolerant Application Password-based Authentication System |
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