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Case Studies
Law Firm Case Study
Jan 2009
Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease (Vorys) operates six offices and many of its lawyers are mobile, carrying laptops with sensitive client data. Vorys needed a solution that maintained its strong...
Provided by DigitalPersona
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White Papers
Public-Key Infrastructure Technology and Concepts
Jan 2001
This paper is intended t help explain general PKI technology and concepts. For the sake of rientation,it also touches on policies and standards and on some of the new and exciting applications...
Provided by Certicom
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White Papers
Foundation Repair: Extended Validation SSL - A New Model for SSL Certificates and Browser Trust
Sep 2008
In 2005, the longstanding Internet browser trust model, which had served as a foundation for many billions of dollars of e-commerce, was starting to show signs of age. Based on Secure Sockets...
Provided by Entrust
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White Papers
Encryption for PCI Compliance
Mar 2009
In December 2004, several credit card companies (American Express, Discover, Japan Credit Bureau, MasterCard and Visa)- members of the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council-released the...
Provided by DigiCert
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White Papers
10 Reasons Why e-Commerce Fails
Jul 2009
This whitepaper covers ten reasons why e-commerce fails, providing readers with advice on how to avoid these pitfalls. While there are a number of reasons why a business may not succeed in...
Provided by bwired
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Case Studies
UTI Systems Protects Mission Critical PKIs With nCipher nShield
Dec 2008
Based in Bucharest, Romania, UTI Systems is one of Romania's oldest and largest information technology service providers. In 2002, UTI began building a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) for a...
Provided by THALES
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White Papers
Sub-Prime PKI: Attacking Extended Validation SSL
Jul 2009
One of the attributes that the paper discusses is the type of SSL certificate presented by a web server when negotiating a secure connection. Modern web browsers support both Domain Validated (DV)...
Provided by Black Hat
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White Papers
The PKI Authentication System With the Integration of Biometric Identification and Nonsymmetric Key Technology
May 2009
To deal with the threats to the PKI authentication system from the internet and the real world, based on the analysis of biometric identification and nonsymmetric key technology, this paper...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
Digital Identities and the Promise of the Technology Trio: PKI, Smart Cards, and Biometrics
May 2007
This paper looks at one of the evolving crimes of the digital age; identity theft. It argues and explains that if three key technologies were implemented together namely biometrics, smart cards,...
Provided by Science Publications
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Webcasts
TechNet Webcast: Design Considerations for Internal Public Key Infrastructures (Level 200)
Oct 2009
More Microsoft products either require or can use security certificates than ever before. Understandably, customers want to take advantage of the increased security and features that are available...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Government Agency Drives Innovation in Public Transit
Nov 2009
TfL wanted a modernised ticketing system to reduce queues and fraud. TfL chose the TranSys consortium as its partner. Together, they formed PRESTIGE (Procurement of Revenue Services Ticketing...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Case Studies
Breakthrough: Malaysia Smart Card Delivering Citizen Services Faster
Mar 2009
The Government Multi-purpose Card (GMPC) project is part of Malaysia's Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) initiative - designed to attract leading-edge technology development to Malaysia. The...
Provided by Unisys
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Case Studies
AC Lens: Gains Ground on the Competition Using VeriSign Extended Validation SSL
Dec 2009
Online contact lens supplier AC Lens switched to VeriSign Extended Validation (EV) SSL Certificates and saw gigantic increases in both conversion rates and revenue per transaction for users who...
Provided by VeriSign
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Case Studies
Lion Corporation: EV Delivers 10% More Conversions for Consumer Products Giant Lion Corporation
Dec 2009
Lion Corporation is one of Japan's leading suppliers of consumer products such as shampoo, toothpaste, medicines, detergents, and pet food. The company focuses its E-commerce site on the elderly,...
Provided by VeriSign
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White Papers
Digipass and PKI
Jul 2009
This paper is intended for companies and financial institutions that are considering setting up a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) or those that already utilize Digipass technology for...
Provided by VASCO Data Security
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White Papers
EU Compliant Digital Signatures
Dec 2008
The CIDX steering team took a project in hand in 2007. The main purpose of this project was to review the EU Directive 2001/115/EC and close any gaps between current CeS business process...
Provided by CIDX
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White Papers
Smart Card Library
Nov 2008
Smart cards are one of the most exciting and promising emerging technology in the field of automated identification. Compared to conventional data transmission devices such as magnetic-stripe...
Provided by IIT
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White Papers
A Modular Correctness Proof of IEEE 802.11i and SSL/TLS
Jan 2010
When networks are required to have mutual authentication between network access point and user devices, the IEEE 802.11i wireless networking protocol is often put to use. This authentication is...
Provided by Stanford University
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White Papers
Aggregate Message Authentication Codes
Oct 2009
This paper proposes and investigates the notions relating to Aggregate Authentication Codes (MACs). These have the property of aggregating multiple MAC tags to form a shorter tag that maintains...
Provided by Bar-Ilan University
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White Papers
Authentication-As-A-Service
Aug 2010
Traditionally, web users have been authenticated with the use of a username and a password. This enables them to gain access to a resource or to log in. The traditional approach to authentication...
Provided by Forrester Research
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White Papers
Efficient Content Authentication in Peer-to-Peer Networks
Apr 2008
Peer-to-Peer (p2p) networks provide the basis for the design of fully decentralized systems, where data and computing resources are shared among participating peers. Properties of p2p networks...
Provided by Brown University
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White Papers
Design and Implementation of Hybrid Broadcast Authentication Protocols in Wireless Sensor Networks
Jan 2009
A Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is a wireless network consisting of spatially distributed resource constrained sensor nodes which can cooperatively monitor physical or environmental conditions....
Provided by National University of Defense Technology
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White Papers
A Identity Authentication Based on Fingerprint Identification
Feb 2010
Security of communication is guaranteed by the security of cipher code system. But to remember the password is difficult, and to steal the password is easy. The fingerprint is the personal...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
A Family of Dunces: Trivial RFID Identification and Authentication Protocols
Dec 2008
RFID technology is rapidly becoming ubiquitous. In the near future, it is expected to replace barcodes as the most common means of product and merchandise identification. Current and emerging...
Provided by University of California
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White Papers
Extensible Pre-Authentication in Kerberos
May 2011
Kerberos is a well-established authentication system. As new authentication methods arise, incorporating them into Kerberos is desirable. However, extending Kerberos poses challenges due to a lack...
Provided by Brigham Young University
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White Papers
A Graphical PIN Authentication Mechanism for Smart Cards and Low-Cost Devices
Jun 2008
Passwords and PINs are still the most deployed authentication mechanism, although they suffer of relevant and well known weakness. The protection of passwords is a classical branch of research in...
Provided by University of Salerno
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White Papers
Embedded Forensics: An Ongoing Research About SIM/USIM Cards
Feb 2009
This paper is aimed at providing an introduction into the field of embedded forensics, or Small Scale Digital Device Forensics (SSDDF) and ongoing research in this field. Embedded forensics...
Provided by University of Brescia
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Case Studies
Unilever Deploys Pan-European PKI
Feb 2008
With a history dating to 1930, Unilever NV and Unilever PLC are the parent companies of what is today one of the largest consumer goods businesses in the world. Unilever wanted to build a...
Provided by AAAdir
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White Papers
Efficient User Revocation for Privacy-Aware PKI
May 2008
Privacy-aware Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) can maintain user access control and yet protect user privacy, which is envisioned as a promising technique in many emerging applications. To justify...
Provided by Illinois Institute of Technology
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White Papers
Simplify SSL Certificate Management Across the Enterprise
Jan 2010
The need for SSL Certificates has moved well beyond the "Buy" page to core functions of the enterprise. SSL Certificates are used to protect remote employee and partner communications via webmail,...
Provided by VeriSign
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White Papers
Public Key Infrastructure Analysis
Jan 2009
This paper outlines the minimum information required for the Drug Enforcement Administration's (DEA) Diversion Control Controlled Substances Ordering System (CSOS) Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)....
Provided by Drug Enforcement Administration
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White Papers
Implementing Public-Key Infrastructure for Sensor Networks
Aug 2008
Through instrumentation of UC Berkeley's TinySec module, authors argue that, although symmetric cryptography has been tractable in this domain for some time, there has remained a need, unfulfilled...
Provided by Harvard University
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White Papers
Agent-Oriented Public Key Infrastructure for Multi-Agent E-Service
Dec 2008
Agent is autonomous software that mediates e-service for human on the Internet. The acceptance of agent-mediated e-service (AMES) is very slow for the lacking of security management infrastructure...
Provided by National Chengchi University
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White Papers
Certificate Policy of the Public Key Infrastructure in the Deutsche Forschungsnetz
Apr 2008
The "Verein zur Förderung eines Deutschen Forschungsnetzes e.V." (The German Association for the Promotion of a National Research and Education Network hereinafter referred to as DFN-Verein) is a...
Provided by DFN
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White Papers
Resource Certification: A Public Key Infrastructure for IP Addresses and AS's
Nov 2008
X.509 Public Key certificates are typically used to validate attestations related to identity or role. The overwhelming number of large scale deployments seen in public networks serves this...
Provided by Asia Pacific Network Information Centre
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White Papers
Using the HiiMap Mapping System as a Public Key Infrastructure
Jul 2010
The HiiMap architecture is a Next Generation Network concept which is based around the locator/identifier split idea. As with each NGN architecture, security was a major concern from the beginning...
Provided by TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH
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White Papers
cv Act PKIntegrated - The Ideal PKI Solution for Novell eDirectory Environments
Aug 2009
The term Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) comprises the entirety of the hardware, software and the organizational stipulations required for the appropriate use of encryption and related...
Provided by cv cryptovision
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White Papers
Technology Options for Biometrics
Aug 2010
To use biometrics as authentication mechanism, there is a 3 step process required: an enrolment step, verification request step, and verification result step. Enrolment is the process of...
Provided by Blue Orca
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Case Studies
Electronic Data Verification for a Govt. Development Department in North America
Aug 2009
The customer, a government development department in North America, was required to make dramatic changes to the manner in which grants related to modernization were allocated to Housing...
Provided by Satyam Computer Services
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Case Studies
1-800-FLOWERS.COM: Creating an e-Commerce Platform for the Future
Jan 2009
1-800-FLOWERS.COM, INC. is the world's largest florist and gift shop, with revenues approaching US$1 billion. 1-800-FLOWERS.COM, INC. needed to replace multiple, diverse, e-commerce systems with a...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Automating Regression Testing Using Web-Based Application Similarities
Sep 2010
Web-based applications are one of the most widely used types of software, and have become the backbone of many e-commerce and communications businesses. These applications are often...
Provided by Springer Science+Business Media
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White Papers
Considerations for Monitoring Highly Concurrent Systems
Jan 2012
Sequential monitoring tools such as Larva are impractical for monitoring highly concurrent systems such as online establishments handling hundreds of transactions a second - they lock valuable...
Provided by University of Malta
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White Papers
Content Based Leaf Image Retrieval (CBLIR) Intended for e-Commerce
Apr 2011
This paper proposes an efficient computer-aided Plant Image Retrieval method based on plant leaf images using Shape and Texture features intended for e-commerce particularly in medical industry,...
Provided by Thiagarajar College of Engineering
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White Papers
Prospects of E-Commerce in India
Mar 2010
E-Commerce has unleashed yet another revolution, which is changing the way businesses buy and sell products and services. E-commerce stands for electronic commerce and pertains to trading in goods...
Provided by RIMT - Institute of Engineering & Technology
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White Papers
PKI Key Generation Using Multimodal Biometrics Fusion of Fingerprint and Iris
Mar 2012
In this paper, the authors introduce an efficient approach for the secure PKI key generation on the idea of multiple modalities Iris and fingerprint. Contributions include a general approach for...
Provided by Acharya Nagarjuna University
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Webcasts
Google On Stupid vs. Money, SSL Search Firefox & HTML5 SEO
Jan 2012
In this webcast, the presenter explains about Google tools. Firefox is testing defaulting users to SSL Google which can be bad for marketers. Google made a change for some browsers that might...
Provided by SPNVideos
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White Papers
Information Fusion in Biometrics: A Case Study in Online Signature
Mar 2010
Biometrics is constantly evolving technology which has been widely used in many official and commercial identification applications. A biometric system is essentially a pattern recognition system...
Provided by De Montfort University
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White Papers
Efficient Generalized Selective Private Function Evaluation With Applications in Biometric Authentication
Nov 2009
In a Selective Private Function Evaluation (SPFE) protocol, the client privately computes some predefined function on his own input and on m out of server's n database elements. The authors...
Provided by University of Tartu
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White Papers
Hill-Climbing and Brute-Force Attacks on Biometric Systems: A Case Study in Match-on-Card Fingerprint Verification
Oct 2007
In this paper, the authors study the robustness of state-of-the-art automatic fingerprint verification systems against hill-climbing and brute-force attacks. They compare the performance of this...
Provided by Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
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White Papers
Sensor Interoperability and Fusion in Fingerprint Verification: A Case Study Using Minutiae and Ridge-Based Matchers
Dec 2006
Information fusion in fingerprint recognition has been studied in several papers. However, only a few papers have been focused on sensor interoperability and sensor fusion. In this paper, these...
Provided by Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
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White Papers
Classification of Handwritten Signatures Based on Name Legibility
Dec 2006
An automatic classification scheme of on-line handwritten signatures is presented. A Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP) with a hidden layer is used as classifier, and two different signature classes are...
Provided by Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
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White Papers
Bayesian Hill-Climbing Attack and Its Application to Signature Verification
Sep 2008
A general hill-climbing attack algorithm based on Bayesian adaption is presented. The approach uses the scores provided by the matcher to adapt a global distribution computed from a development...
Provided by Springer Science+Business Media
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White Papers
Biometric Hashing Based on Genetic Selection and Its Application to On-Line Signatures
Sep 2008
The authors present a general biometric hash generation scheme based on vector quantization of multiple feature subsets selected with genetic optimization. The quantization of subsets overcomes...
Provided by Springer Science+Business Media
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White Papers
On the Effects of Sampling Rate and Interpolation in HMM-Based Dynamic Signature Verification
Feb 2007
In this paper, re-sampling techniques and interpolation are applied to on-line signatures. Their effect on the performance of an on-line signature system using Hidden Markov Models is studied. The...
Provided by Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
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White Papers
Automatic Measures for Predicting Performance in Off-Line Signature
Aug 2007
Performance in terms of accuracy is one of the most important goals of a biometric system. Hence, having a measure which is able to predict the performance with respect to a particular sample of...
Provided by Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
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White Papers
Dealing With Sensor Interoperability in Multi-Biometrics: The UPM Experience at the Biosecure Multimodal
Jan 2008
Multimodal biometric systems allow to overcome some of the problems presented in unimodal systems, such as non-universality, lack of distinctiveness of the unimodal trait, noise in the acquired...
Provided by Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
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White Papers
Performance and Robustness: A Trade-Off in Dynamic Signature Verification
May 2008
A performance and robustness study for on-line signature verification is presented. Experiments are carried out on the MCYT database comprising 16,500 signatures from 330 subjects, which are...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
BioSec Multimodal Biometric Database in Text-Dependent Speaker Recognition
Apr 2008
In this paper, the authors briefly describe the BioSec multimodal biometric database and analyze its use in automatic text-dependent speaker recognition research. The paper is structured into four...
Provided by Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
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White Papers
Information-Theoretical Comparison of Evidence Evaluation Methods for Score-Based Biometric Systems
Feb 2008
Biometric systems are a powerful tool in many forensic disciplines in order to aid scientists to evaluate the weight of the evidence. However, uprising requirements of admissibility in forensic...
Provided by Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
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White Papers
Towards Mobile Authentication Using Dynamic Signature Verification: Useful Features and Performance Evaluation
Jan 2009
The proliferation of handheld devices such as PDAs and smartphones represents a new scenario for automatic signature verification. Traditionally, research on signature verification has been...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Evaluation of Brute-Force Attack to Dynamic Signature Verification Using Synthetic Samples
Sep 2009
A brute force attack using synthetically generated handwritten signatures is performed against a HMM-based signature recognition system. The generation algorithm of synthetic signatures is based...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Biometrics Beyond the Visible Spectrum: Imaging Technologies and Applications
May 2009
Human body images acquired at visible spectrum have inherent restrictions that hinder the performance of person recognition systems built using that kind of information (e.g. scene artefacts under...
Provided by Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
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White Papers
Hill-Climbing Attack to an Eigenface-Based Face Verification System
Jun 2009
The authors use a general hill-climbing attack algorithm based on Bayesian adaption to test the vulnerability of an Eigenface-based approach for face recognition against indirect attacks. The...
Provided by Idiap Research Institute
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White Papers
Vulnerability Assessment of Fingerprint Matching Based on Time Analysis
Sep 2009
A time analysis of a reference minutiae-based fingerprint matching system is presented. The authors study the relation between the score generated by the system (NFIS2 from NIST) and the time...
Provided by Springer Science+Business Media
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White Papers
Fingerprint Liveness Detection Based on Quality Measures
Jun 2009
A new fingerprint parameterization for liveness detection based on quality measures is presented. The novel feature set is used in a complete liveness detection system and tested on the...
Provided by Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
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White Papers
Analysis of Time Domain Information for Footstep Recognition
Nov 2010
This paper reports an experimental analysis of footsteps as a biometric. The focus here is on information extracted from the time domain of signals collected from an array of piezoelectric...
Provided by Springer Science+Business Media
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White Papers
On the Use of Factor Analysis With Restricted Target Data in Speaker Verification
Feb 2010
Factor Analysis (FA) based techniques have become the state of the art in automatic speaker verification thanks to their great ability to model session variability. This ability, in turn, relies...
Provided by Queensland University of Technology
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White Papers
Scenario-Based Score Fusion for Face Recognition at a Distance
Apr 2010
The effect of different acquisition distances on the performance of face verification is studied. In particular, the authors evaluate two standard approaches using popular features (DCT and PCA)...
Provided by Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
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White Papers
A Comparative Evaluation of Finger-Drawn Graphical Password Verification Methods
Jan 2011
Doodle-based graphical passwords represent a challenging scenario due to their high variability and the tendency to be graphically simple. Despite this, doodle-based authentication using...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Kinematical Analysis of Synthetic Dynamic Signatures Using the Sigma-Lognormal Model
Jan 2011
The kinematical information present in synthetically generated signatures is analyzed using the Sigma-Lognormal model and compared to the kinematical properties of real samples. Experiments are...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Towards a Better Understanding of the Performance of Latent Fingerprint Recognition in Realistic Forensic Conditions
May 2010
This paper studies the performance of a state-of-the-art fingerprint recognition technology, in several practical scenarios of interest in forensic casework. First, the differences in performance...
Provided by Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
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White Papers
Hill-Climbing Attack Based on the Uphill Simplex Algorithm and Its Application to Signature Verification
Mar 2011
A general hill-climbing attack to biometric systems based on a modification of the downhill simplex algorithm is presented. The scores provided by the matcher are used in this approach to adapt...
Provided by Springer Science+Business Media
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White Papers
Predicting Iris Vulnerability to Direct Attacks Based on Quality Related Features
Jul 2011
A new vulnerability prediction scheme for direct attacks to iris recognition systems is presented. The objective of the novel technique, based on a 22 quality related parameterization, is to...
Provided by Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
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White Papers
Iris Liveness Detection Based on Quality Related Features
Dec 2011
A new liveness detection scheme for iris based on quality related measures is presented. The novel anti-spoofing technique is tested on a database comprising over 1,600 real and fake (high quality...
Provided by Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
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White Papers
BioSec Baseline Corpus: A Multimodal Biometric Database
Apr 2007
The baseline copus of a new multimodal database, acquired in the framework of the FP6 EU BioSec Integrated Project, is presented. The corpus consist of fingerprint images acquired with three...
Provided by Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
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White Papers
HMM-Based On-Line Signature Verification: Feature Extraction and Signature Modeling
Dec 2007
A function-based approach to on-line signature verification is presented. The system uses a set of time sequences and Hidden Markov Models (HMMs). Development and evaluation experiments are...
Provided by Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
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White Papers
A Comparative Study of Fingerprint Image-Quality Estimation Methods
Dec 2007
One of the open issues in fingerprint verification is the lack of robustness against image-quality degradation. Poor-quality images result in spurious and missing features, thus degrading the...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Secure Biometric Authentication System Architecture Using Error Correcting Codes and Distributed Cryptography
Apr 2007
The most emerging technology for people identification and authentication is biometrics. In contrast with traditional recognition approaches, biometric authentication relies on who a person is or...
Provided by Universita Degli Studi Roma Tre
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White Papers
Spectral Minutiae Representations for Fingerprint Recognition
Jul 2010
The spectral minutiae representation introduced in this paper is a novel method to represent a minutiae set as a fixed-length feature vector, which is invariant to translation, and in which...
Provided by University of Twente
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White Papers
Activity Related Biometrics Based on Motion Trajectories
Jul 2010
This paper contributes to the concept of activity-related biometric authentication in ambient Intelligence environments. The motivation behind the proposed approach derives from activity-related...
Provided by Imperial College London
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White Papers
Encryption for PCI Compliance
Mar 2009
In December 2004, several credit card companies (American Express, Discover, Japan Credit Bureau, MasterCard and Visa)- members of the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council-released the...
Provided by DigiCert
-
White Papers
10 Reasons Why e-Commerce Fails
Jul 2009
This whitepaper covers ten reasons why e-commerce fails, providing readers with advice on how to avoid these pitfalls. While there are a number of reasons why a business may not succeed in...
Provided by bwired
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Case Studies
UTI Systems Protects Mission Critical PKIs With nCipher nShield
Dec 2008
Based in Bucharest, Romania, UTI Systems is one of Romania's oldest and largest information technology service providers. In 2002, UTI began building a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) for a...
Provided by THALES
-
White Papers
Sub-Prime PKI: Attacking Extended Validation SSL
Jul 2009
One of the attributes that the paper discusses is the type of SSL certificate presented by a web server when negotiating a secure connection. Modern web browsers support both Domain Validated (DV)...
Provided by Black Hat
-
White Papers
The PKI Authentication System With the Integration of Biometric Identification and Nonsymmetric Key Technology
May 2009
To deal with the threats to the PKI authentication system from the internet and the real world, based on the analysis of biometric identification and nonsymmetric key technology, this paper...
Provided by Academy Publisher
-
White Papers
Digital Identities and the Promise of the Technology Trio: PKI, Smart Cards, and Biometrics
May 2007
This paper looks at one of the evolving crimes of the digital age; identity theft. It argues and explains that if three key technologies were implemented together namely biometrics, smart cards,...
Provided by Science Publications
-
Webcasts
TechNet Webcast: Design Considerations for Internal Public Key Infrastructures (Level 200)
Oct 2009
More Microsoft products either require or can use security certificates than ever before. Understandably, customers want to take advantage of the increased security and features that are available...
Provided by Microsoft
-
Case Studies
Government Agency Drives Innovation in Public Transit
Nov 2009
TfL wanted a modernised ticketing system to reduce queues and fraud. TfL chose the TranSys consortium as its partner. Together, they formed PRESTIGE (Procurement of Revenue Services Ticketing...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
-
Case Studies
Breakthrough: Malaysia Smart Card Delivering Citizen Services Faster
Mar 2009
The Government Multi-purpose Card (GMPC) project is part of Malaysia's Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) initiative - designed to attract leading-edge technology development to Malaysia. The...
Provided by Unisys
-
Case Studies
AC Lens: Gains Ground on the Competition Using VeriSign Extended Validation SSL
Dec 2009
Online contact lens supplier AC Lens switched to VeriSign Extended Validation (EV) SSL Certificates and saw gigantic increases in both conversion rates and revenue per transaction for users who...
Provided by VeriSign
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Case Studies
Lion Corporation: EV Delivers 10% More Conversions for Consumer Products Giant Lion Corporation
Dec 2009
Lion Corporation is one of Japan's leading suppliers of consumer products such as shampoo, toothpaste, medicines, detergents, and pet food. The company focuses its E-commerce site on the elderly,...
Provided by VeriSign
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White Papers
Digipass and PKI
Jul 2009
This paper is intended for companies and financial institutions that are considering setting up a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) or those that already utilize Digipass technology for...
Provided by VASCO Data Security
-
White Papers
EU Compliant Digital Signatures
Dec 2008
The CIDX steering team took a project in hand in 2007. The main purpose of this project was to review the EU Directive 2001/115/EC and close any gaps between current CeS business process...
Provided by CIDX
-
White Papers
Smart Card Library
Nov 2008
Smart cards are one of the most exciting and promising emerging technology in the field of automated identification. Compared to conventional data transmission devices such as magnetic-stripe...
Provided by IIT
-
White Papers
A Modular Correctness Proof of IEEE 802.11i and SSL/TLS
Jan 2010
When networks are required to have mutual authentication between network access point and user devices, the IEEE 802.11i wireless networking protocol is often put to use. This authentication is...
Provided by Stanford University
-
White Papers
Aggregate Message Authentication Codes
Oct 2009
This paper proposes and investigates the notions relating to Aggregate Authentication Codes (MACs). These have the property of aggregating multiple MAC tags to form a shorter tag that maintains...
Provided by Bar-Ilan University
-
White Papers
Authentication-As-A-Service
Aug 2010
Traditionally, web users have been authenticated with the use of a username and a password. This enables them to gain access to a resource or to log in. The traditional approach to authentication...
Provided by Forrester Research
-
White Papers
Efficient Content Authentication in Peer-to-Peer Networks
Apr 2008
Peer-to-Peer (p2p) networks provide the basis for the design of fully decentralized systems, where data and computing resources are shared among participating peers. Properties of p2p networks...
Provided by Brown University
-
White Papers
Design and Implementation of Hybrid Broadcast Authentication Protocols in Wireless Sensor Networks
Jan 2009
A Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is a wireless network consisting of spatially distributed resource constrained sensor nodes which can cooperatively monitor physical or environmental conditions....
Provided by National University of Defense Technology
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White Papers
A Identity Authentication Based on Fingerprint Identification
Feb 2010
Security of communication is guaranteed by the security of cipher code system. But to remember the password is difficult, and to steal the password is easy. The fingerprint is the personal...
Provided by Academy Publisher
-
White Papers
A Family of Dunces: Trivial RFID Identification and Authentication Protocols
Dec 2008
RFID technology is rapidly becoming ubiquitous. In the near future, it is expected to replace barcodes as the most common means of product and merchandise identification. Current and emerging...
Provided by University of California
-
White Papers
Extensible Pre-Authentication in Kerberos
May 2011
Kerberos is a well-established authentication system. As new authentication methods arise, incorporating them into Kerberos is desirable. However, extending Kerberos poses challenges due to a lack...
Provided by Brigham Young University
-
White Papers
A Graphical PIN Authentication Mechanism for Smart Cards and Low-Cost Devices
Jun 2008
Passwords and PINs are still the most deployed authentication mechanism, although they suffer of relevant and well known weakness. The protection of passwords is a classical branch of research in...
Provided by University of Salerno
-
White Papers
Embedded Forensics: An Ongoing Research About SIM/USIM Cards
Feb 2009
This paper is aimed at providing an introduction into the field of embedded forensics, or Small Scale Digital Device Forensics (SSDDF) and ongoing research in this field. Embedded forensics...
Provided by University of Brescia
-
Case Studies
Unilever Deploys Pan-European PKI
Feb 2008
With a history dating to 1930, Unilever NV and Unilever PLC are the parent companies of what is today one of the largest consumer goods businesses in the world. Unilever wanted to build a...
Provided by AAAdir
-
White Papers
Efficient User Revocation for Privacy-Aware PKI
May 2008
Privacy-aware Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) can maintain user access control and yet protect user privacy, which is envisioned as a promising technique in many emerging applications. To justify...
Provided by Illinois Institute of Technology
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White Papers
Simplify SSL Certificate Management Across the Enterprise
Jan 2010
The need for SSL Certificates has moved well beyond the "Buy" page to core functions of the enterprise. SSL Certificates are used to protect remote employee and partner communications via webmail,...
Provided by VeriSign
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White Papers
Public Key Infrastructure Analysis
Jan 2009
This paper outlines the minimum information required for the Drug Enforcement Administration's (DEA) Diversion Control Controlled Substances Ordering System (CSOS) Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)....
Provided by Drug Enforcement Administration
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White Papers
Implementing Public-Key Infrastructure for Sensor Networks
Aug 2008
Through instrumentation of UC Berkeley's TinySec module, authors argue that, although symmetric cryptography has been tractable in this domain for some time, there has remained a need, unfulfilled...
Provided by Harvard University
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White Papers
Agent-Oriented Public Key Infrastructure for Multi-Agent E-Service
Dec 2008
Agent is autonomous software that mediates e-service for human on the Internet. The acceptance of agent-mediated e-service (AMES) is very slow for the lacking of security management infrastructure...
Provided by National Chengchi University
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White Papers
Certificate Policy of the Public Key Infrastructure in the Deutsche Forschungsnetz
Apr 2008
The "Verein zur Förderung eines Deutschen Forschungsnetzes e.V." (The German Association for the Promotion of a National Research and Education Network hereinafter referred to as DFN-Verein) is a...
Provided by DFN
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White Papers
Resource Certification: A Public Key Infrastructure for IP Addresses and AS's
Nov 2008
X.509 Public Key certificates are typically used to validate attestations related to identity or role. The overwhelming number of large scale deployments seen in public networks serves this...
Provided by Asia Pacific Network Information Centre
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White Papers
Using the HiiMap Mapping System as a Public Key Infrastructure
Jul 2010
The HiiMap architecture is a Next Generation Network concept which is based around the locator/identifier split idea. As with each NGN architecture, security was a major concern from the beginning...
Provided by TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH
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White Papers
cv Act PKIntegrated - The Ideal PKI Solution for Novell eDirectory Environments
Aug 2009
The term Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) comprises the entirety of the hardware, software and the organizational stipulations required for the appropriate use of encryption and related...
Provided by cv cryptovision
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White Papers
Technology Options for Biometrics
Aug 2010
To use biometrics as authentication mechanism, there is a 3 step process required: an enrolment step, verification request step, and verification result step. Enrolment is the process of...
Provided by Blue Orca
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Case Studies
Electronic Data Verification for a Govt. Development Department in North America
Aug 2009
The customer, a government development department in North America, was required to make dramatic changes to the manner in which grants related to modernization were allocated to Housing...
Provided by Satyam Computer Services
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Case Studies
1-800-FLOWERS.COM: Creating an e-Commerce Platform for the Future
Jan 2009
1-800-FLOWERS.COM, INC. is the world's largest florist and gift shop, with revenues approaching US$1 billion. 1-800-FLOWERS.COM, INC. needed to replace multiple, diverse, e-commerce systems with a...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Cv Act Sc/interface Universal Middleware for Smart Cards and Security Tokens
Aug 2009
With cv act sc/interface, cryptovision offers a seamless integrated middleware for smart cards and security tokens. Because cv act sc/interface implements the PKCS#11 and PKCS#15 (ISO7816-15)...
Provided by cv cryptovision
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White Papers
Side Channel Attacks on Smart Cards
Aug 2009
Countermeasures against side channel attacks - e.g. power attacks, based on an analysis of the power consumption, or electromagnetic attacks, which are based on the measurement of electromagnetic...
Provided by cv cryptovision
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White Papers
CV Act Library/sc the Cryptographic Library for Smart Cards and Other Security Tokens
Aug 2009
With cv act library/sc crypto vision offers a cryptographic library which is especially optimized for the integration of security ICs, just as they are used in smart cards, SIM modules, NFC and...
Provided by cv cryptovision
