Name
Abstract | ||
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Many users routinely log in to their system with system administrator privileges. This is especially true of home users. The advantage of this setup is that these users can do everything necessary to fulfil their tasks with the computer. The disadvantage is that every program running in the users context can make arbitrary modifications to the system. Malicious programs and scripts often take advantage of this and silently change important parameters. We propose to verify that these changes were initiated by a human by a ceremony making use of a CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart). We compare this approach with other methods of achieving the same goal, i.e. passwords, secure path and access control based on zone of origin of the code. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
|---|---|---|
2005 | 10.1007/978-3-540-77156-2_19 | Security Protocols Workshop |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
important parameter,access control,system administrator privilege,users context,home user,secure path,automated exploit,system security captchas,completely automated public turing,malicious program,arbitrary modification | Internet privacy,Computer science,Turing test,Computer security,Login,Exploit,Access control,System administrator,Password,CAPTCHA,Scripting language | Conference |
Volume | ISSN | ISBN |
4631 | 0302-9743 | 3-540-77155-7 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
0 | 0.34 | 4 |
Authors | ||
4 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dinan Gunawardena | 1 | 369 | 20.58 |
| Jacob Scott | 2 | 151 | 14.00 |
| Alf Zugenmaier | 3 | 208 | 26.01 |
| Austin Donnelly | 4 | 1345 | 66.50 |