Virtualization based password protection against malware in untrusted operating systems

• Main Authors: CHENG, Yueqiang, DING, Xuhua
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2012
• Subjects: Password protection; Password-based authentication; Performance loss; Protection mechanisms; Protection systems; User authentication
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/1670; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/2669/viewcontent/trust12.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Password based authentication remains as the mainstream user authentication method for most web servers, despite its known vulnerability to keylogger attacks. Most existing countermeasures are costly because they require a strong isolation of the browser and the operating system. In this paper, we p...