Secured Authentication Using Mobile Phone as Security Token
Monalisa P. Kini, Kavita V. Sonawane, Shamsuddin S. Khan · 2014
The inherent challenges of the security issue have become a top priority in every organization that makes use of information. Securing digital identities is getting more and more crucial. For authentication the usage of passwords is no longer sufficient because it faces most modern means of attacks and thus stronger authentication schemes are needed. Strong authentication solutions having two identification factors require often an additional device, which could be difficult for the user and costly for the service providers. In order to avoid the use of additional device, mobile phone is adopted as security token. This paper introduces a concept where mobile miss call is used as an additional password to the application. For lot of security reasons one generally requires a very secure password, to implement the same the focus of this paper is on Authentication using mobile phone as security token and a mobile missed call is a unique one.