Transient Authentication Using Mobile Security Token

Abstract

Implementing strong, fast and friendly authentication scheme is very important for securing devices (mainly mobile devices) and information systems. There is inversive proportion between usability and security. Designing authentication scheme solving a tension between security and usability will lead to be acceptance by users which are worry in easy and fast access to system resources more than it be strong secure. Transient authentication rises as idea to get strong authentication mechanism merged with handled token to make authentication mechanism usable. In this project authentication scheme with two factors is implemented. Password plus hardware token work in idea of transient authentication. Token communicate with device over Bluetooth. Information sent over Bluetooth encrypted by RSA algorithm. The prototype implemented show how the authentication scheme proposed above is secure and usable with negligible burden on user.