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Ivano Bonesano,
"Enhancing Communication Security on the Client Side".
Master's thesis,
Advanced Learning and Research Institute, Faculty of Informatics, University of Lugano,
Lugano, Switzerland,
July
2007
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| Abstract | In recent years we have witnessed an exponential growth of the number of embedded networked devices, of the availability of Internet access and of the services offered by companies and banks to customers. It is clear that there is a parallel growth in the concern for privacy and information confidentiality. Often, the case is that companies invest money on protecting the server side, which, if successfully attacked, would cause a decrease in the reputability of the company or the banking system. It would be interesting to provide solutions that also help protecting, as much as possible and with acceptable costs, the customer side where typically a normal desktop Internet connection is used to access the services. This would be probably necessary in the future, as more ?active? customer profiles will be introduced. The goal of this project is to investigate existing solutions with regards to this problem, and to propose techniques such as usage of dedicated hardware devices (smart authenticators, secure tokens and in general embedded devices). A particular important contribution would be the modeling of such systems (including the communication protocol and the server side) and the analysis of the various trade-offs regarding the real level of security, the cost, the easiness of use and the level of security perceived by the customers |
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| Research area | Security and Communications |
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