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Authentication Usability Methodology, Jean-Baptiste Subils
Authentication Usability Methodology, Jean-Baptiste Subils
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Nowadays many systems require end users to authenticate themselves. Authentication is one of the security activities that end users perform the most. Thus, the usability of this security feature plays a major role in the proper utilization and adoption of a novel authentication method.
This dissertation presents coauthentication, a novel authentication system. Many authentication methods and protocols exist, but passwords remain the predominant authentication method used. Coauthentication is presented here in detail in several possible variations and their associated protocols, with performance comparisons.
This dissertation also presents a framework to evaluate authentication methods in terms of usability.
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