2003 IEEE/WIC International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'03)
A Novel Web Security Evaluation Model for a One-Time-Password System
Halifax, Canada
October 13-October 17
ISBN: 0-7695-1932-6
One-time passwords (OTPs) have the advantage over regular passwords in that they protect legitimate users from replay attacks by generating a different password for each time of authentication. There are two variables that play a major role in creating a secure OTP; they are the passphrase length and the number of times the one-time password should be hashed. It is already a known fact that the larger the passphrase length the better is the security an OTP can offer. However, there is still a lack of quantitative analysis carried out to study how optimal web security can be achieved. To this end, we propose a novel web security evaluation model that can be used to measure the strength of a one-time password.