X.509 User Certificate-based Two-Factor Authentication For Web Applications

Zink, Thomas; Waldvogel, Marcel

X.509 User Certificate-based Two-Factor Authentication For Web Applications

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Datum

2017

Autor:innen

Zink, Thomas

Waldvogel, Marcel

Schriftenreihe

Distributed Systems Group Technical Report

URI (zitierfähiger Link)

http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:352-0-414673

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Urheberrechtlich geschützt

Open Access-Veröffentlichung

Open Access Green

Sammlungen

Informatik und Informationswissenschaft

Publikationstyp

Working Paper/Technical Report

Publikationsstatus

Published

Zusammenfassung

An appealing property to researchers, educators, and students is the openness of the physical environment and IT infrastructure of their organizations. However, to the IT administration, this creates challenges way beyond those of a single-purpose business or administration. Especially the personally identifiable information or the power of the critical functions behind these logins, such as financial transactions or manipulating user accounts, require extra protection in the heterogeneous educational environment with single-sign-on. However, most web-based environments still lack a reasonable second-factor protection or at least the enforcement of it for privileged operations without hindering normal usage.
In this paper we introduce a novel and surprisingly simple yet extremely exible way to implement two-factor authentication based on X.509 user certificates in web applications. Our solution requires only a few lines of code in web server configuration and none in the application source code for basic protection. Furthermore, since it is based on X.509 certificates, it can be easily combined with smartcards or USB cryptotokens to further enhance security.

Fachgebiet (DDC)

004 Informatik

Schlagwörter

MFA, 2FA, Authentication, OTP, X.509, S/MIME

Zitieren

ISO 690

ZINK, Thomas, Marcel WALDVOGEL, 2017. X.509 User Certificate-based Two-Factor Authentication For Web Applications

BibTex

@techreport{Zink2017Certi-39574,
  year={2017},
  series={Distributed Systems Group Technical Report},
  title={X.509 User Certificate-based Two-Factor Authentication For Web Applications},
  number={KN-2017-DISY-03},
  author={Zink, Thomas and Waldvogel, Marcel}
}

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