IKM-based Security Usability Enhancement Model
Saeed Yazdanpanah, Saman Shojae Chaeikar · 2012
Today by growth of hardware and software technologies new developed products are delivering more facilities while their security configuration is becoming more and more complicated. Security configuration of network-based products is not comprehensible for every user and therefore degrades system usability dramatically. IKM is a cryptographic key management framework which empowers end-user systems to generate keys for preserving security while it also has potential of usability enhancement particularly for network-based products. This paper describes background of security usability, IKM key management framework, and proposes a new method for using IKM to deliver security and usability features for designed network-based systems. In last section delivered security and usability of proposed model is evaluated based on cryptographic key-strength analysis and usability questionnaire.