Multilevel user authentication and identification scheme for e-mail clients

Artan Luma, Burim Ismaili, Bujar Raufi

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Abstract

User authentication and identification have always represented a challenge in web-based e-mail systems. The textbased authentication and user identification are not sufficient to address the security issues facing web-based e-mail systems. This sort of security is completely retrograde and obsolete for current security threats that easily undermine authentication, identification and non-repudiation. In this paper, a security increase in e-mail client is proposed by introducing multiplelevel authentication and identification in e-mail clients. The proposed multilevel authentication and identification consist of four levels, where level-1 is the text-based authentication, level- 2 involves an image based authentication and finally level-3 and level-4 use a specific algorithm that exploits the powerful properties of two mathematical operators called Pentors and UltraPentors applied against the image in level-2.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the World Congress on Engineering 2013, WCE 2013
Pages1221-1225
Number of pages5
Publication statusPublished - 2013
Externally publishedYes
Event2013 World Congress on Engineering, WCE 2013 - London, United Kingdom
Duration: 3 Jul 20135 Jul 2013

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Engineering and Computer Science
Volume2 LNECS
ISSN (Print)2078-0958

Conference

Conference2013 World Congress on Engineering, WCE 2013
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityLondon
Period3/07/135/07/13

Keywords

  • Cryptography
  • Image-based authentication
  • User authentication
  • User identification

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