Authentication Metric Analysis and Design

Authentication Metric Analysis and Design (1999)

by Michael K. Reiter

Venue:	ACM Transactions on Information and System Security
Citations:	64 - 1 self

Datum	Value	Source
TITLE	Authentication Metric Analysis and Design	INFERENCE
AUTHOR NAME	Michael K. Reiter	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR AFFIL	Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies; and	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR ADDR	STUART G. STUBBLEBINE	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
ABSTRACT	Authentication using a path of trusted intermediaries, each able to authenticate the next in the path, is a well-known technique for authenticating entities in a large-scale system. Recent work has extended this technique to include multiple paths in an effort to bolster authentication, but the success of this approach may be unclear in the face of intersecting paths, ambiguities in the meaning of certificates, and interdependencies in the use of different keys. Thus, several authors have proposed metrics to evaluate the confidence afforded by a set of paths. In this paper we develop a set of guiding principles for the design of such metrics. We motivate our principles by showing how previous approaches failed with respect to these priniciples and what the consequences to authentication might be. We then propose a new metric that appears to meet our principles, and so to be a satisfactory metric of authentication.	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
YEAR	1999	INFERENCE
VENUE	ACM Transactions on Information and System Security	INFERENCE
VENUE TYPE	JOURNAL	INFERENCE
PAGES	138--158	INFERENCE
VOLUME	2	INFERENCE
CITATIONS	28 found	ParsCit 1.0