Reliable, Usable Signaling to Defeat Masquerade Attacks
L. Jean Camp · The Knowledge Bank (The Ohio State University) · 2007
The great irony of our information infrastructure is that while there is an immense variety of data, it flows through a single channel.Therefore, individuals are forced to evaluate the safety of the web sites they are viewing on the same channel that may be controlled by a malicious party.How can a consumer obtain the information necessary to discriminate between good and bad resources?The solution to this particular signaling problem is to create mechanisms that are embedded in the communication but beyond the control of the web site.Net Trust is an application that informs the web-browsing experience with an individually tailored, easy-to-use, thoroughly tested interface.Net Trust is focused on authenticating web sites to individual users instead of authenticating individual users to web sites.This paper describes the theory, motivation, and interaction behind Net Trust.