A Security Analysis and Reinforcement Design Adopting Fingerprints over Drawbacks of Passwords Based Authentication in Remote Home Automation Control System
Mukundwa Chantal, Seok Won Lee, Ki Hyung Kim · 2017
Privacy has been one of the focus in information security discussion over years and it has become an issue everyone would like to protect though sometime people end up giving up some of their privacy in exchange of other services; however, the privacy in home automation is still crucial as ensuring only allowed users can access the appliances within the house. In this research, we evaluated the drawbacks of using passwords for authentication on mobile application used for home automation and provided and analyzed a more robust system design using fingerprints to take the advantage over uniqueness of fingerprint to identify humans.