Abstract
Today, digitalization decisively penetrates all the sides of the modern society. One of the key enablers to maintain this process secure is authentication. It covers many different areas of a hyper-connected world, including online payments, communications, access right management, etc. This work sheds light on the evolution of authentication systems towards Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) starting from Single-Factor Authentication (SFA) and through Two-Factor Authentication (2FA). Particularly, MFA is expected to be utilized for human-to-everything interactions by enabling fast, user-friendly, and reliable authentication when accessing a service. This paper surveys the already available and emerging sensors (factor providers) that allow for authenticating a user with the system directly or by involving the cloud. The corresponding challenges from the user as well as the service provider perspective are also reviewed. The MFA system based on reversed Lagrange polynomial within Shamir’s Secret Sharing (SSS) scheme is further proposed to enable more flexible authentication. This solution covers the cases of authenticating the user even if some of the factors are mismatched or absent. Our framework allows for qualifying the missing factors by authenticating the user without disclosing sensitive biometric data to the verification entity. Finally, a vision of the future trends in MFA is discussed.
Highlights
The continuous growth in the numbers of smart devices and related connectivity loads has impacted mobile services seamlessly offered anywhere around the globe [1]
Biometric authentication requires an integration of new services and devices that results in the need for additional education during adoption, which becomes more complicated for seniors and due to related understandability concerns
For the Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) framework, we assume two possible decisions made during the user authentication phase, as it is displayed in Figure 8: (i) H0 —the user is not legitimate; or (ii) H1 —the user is legitimate
Summary
The continuous growth in the numbers of smart devices and related connectivity loads has impacted mobile services seamlessly offered anywhere around the globe [1]. The user has to provide a physical token (a card) representing the ownership factor and support it with a PIN code representing the knowledge factor to be able to access a personal account and withdraw money This system could be made more complex by adding the second channel like, for example, a one-time password to be entered after both the card and the user password were presented [39,40]. One of the main MFA challenges is the absence of correlation between the user identity and the identities of smart sensors within the electronic device/system [59] Regarding security, this relationship must be established so that only the legitimate operator, e.g., the one whose identity is authenticated in advance, can gain the access rights [60,61]. A discussion on the potential evaluation methodology is provided; the vision of the future of MFA is discussed (Section 5)
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