Secure, Fast, and Energy-Efficient Outsourced Authentication
for Smartphones

J 2016

Secure, Fast, and Energy-Efficient Outsourced Authentication for Smartphones

GASTI, Paolo, Jaroslav ŠEDĚNKA, Qing YANG, Gang ZHOU, Kiran S BALAGANI et. al.

Basic information

Original name

Secure, Fast, and Energy-Efficient Outsourced Authentication for Smartphones

Authors

GASTI, Paolo (380 Italy), Jaroslav ŠEDĚNKA (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Qing YANG (156 China), Gang ZHOU (156 China) and Kiran S BALAGANI (356 India)

Edition

IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, IEEE, 2016, 1556-6013

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

10201 Computer sciences, information science, bioinformatics

Country of publisher

United States of America

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Impact factor

Impact factor: 4.332

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14310/16:00094222

Organization unit

Faculty of Science

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TIFS.2016.2585093

UT WoS

000386223800013

Keywords in English

Privacy; cryptographic protocols; authentication; energy efficiency

Abstract

V originále

Common smartphone authentication mechanisms (e.g., PINs, graphical passwords, and fingerprint scans) are not designed to offer security post-login. Multi-modal continuous authentication addresses this issue by frequently and unobtrusively authenticating the user via behavioral biometric signals, such as touchscreen interaction and hand movements. Because smartphones can easily fall into the hands of the adversary, it is critical that the behavioral biometric information collected and processed on these devices is secured. This can be done by offloading encrypted template information to a remote server, and then performing authentication via privacy-preserving protocols. In this paper, we demonstrate that the energy overhead of current privacy-preserving protocols for continuous authentication is unsustainable on smartphones. To reduce energy consumption, we design a technique that leverages characteristics unique to the authentication setting in order to securely outsource computation to an untrusted Cloud. Our approach is secure against a colluding smartphone and Cloud, thus making it well suited for authentication. We performed extensive experimental evaluation. With our technique, the energy requirement for running an authentication instance that computes Manhattan distance is 0.2 mWh, which corresponds to a negligible fraction of the smartphone's battery capacity. In addition, for Manhattan distance, our protocol runs in 0.72 and 2 s for 8 and 28 biometric features, respectively. We were also able to compute Hamming distance in 3.29 s, compared with 95.57 s achieved with the previous fastest outsourced computation protocol (Whitewash). These results demonstrate that ours is presently the only technique suitable for low-latency continuous authentication (e.g., with authentication scan windows of 60 s or shorter).

Citovat

GASTI, Paolo, Jaroslav ŠEDĚNKA, Qing YANG, Gang ZHOU and Kiran S BALAGANI. Secure, Fast, and Energy-Efficient Outsourced Authentication for Smartphones. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security. IEEE, 2016, vol. 11, No 11, p. 2556-2571. ISSN 1556-6013. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TIFS.2016.2585093.

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GASTI, Paolo, Jaroslav ŠEDĚNKA, Qing YANG, Gang ZHOU and Kiran S BALAGANI. Secure, Fast, and Energy-Efficient Outsourced Authentication for Smartphones. \textit{IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security}. IEEE, 2016, vol.~11, No~11, p.~2556-2571. ISSN~1556-6013. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TIFS.2016.2585093.

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