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Jaret Alan Langston

Interdisciplinary Engineering Ph.D. Public Defense

Tuesday, March 24, 2020, at 1:00pm

Presentation to be made online via teleconference:

https://zoom.us/j/197407805

Jaret Alan Langston

Candidate for Doctor of Philosophy in Interdisciplinary Engineering

 

Committee:

Dale Callahan, Chair
Dalton Nelson
Ernest Rigney
Lauretta Gerrity
Joseph Popinski

"Facial Recognition with Image Signaling:

Efficacy of Two Factor Authentication Utilizing a Single Image Input Mechanism on a Smartphone"

 

ABSTRACT:

Smartphones contain a high concentration of sensitive information like PII, banking information, and medical information. Single factor authentication (SFA) is used to secure these smartphones and is insufficient protection for the sensitive data they contain. This research presents how to use images for submitting authentication factors, how to measure and score the security and usability of this approach as compared to standard multi-factor authentication (MFA) input methods, and if users find this approach more usable than the standard MFA input methods. The main objective of this research is to determine if using an image to input two factors of authentication (2FA), specifically a new process called Facial Recognition with Image Signaling (FRIS), is a viable alternative to traditional MFA options on smartphones in terms of security and usability.