Everything about Authentication

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: AuthenticationA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Blockchain and PUF-Based Lightweight Authentication Protocol for Wireless Medical Sensor NetworksInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Start with whyThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Password authentication with insecure communicationCited 2,016 times
5. Go sideways: E-commerce identification and identification typesA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Electronic authenticationA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Password authentication with insecure communication

  Leslie Lamport · 1981 · Communications of the ACM · 2,016 citations

• A logic of authentication

  Michael Burrows, Martin Abadi, Roger Needham · 1990 · ACM Transactions on Computer Systems · 1,823 citations

• Using encryption for authentication in large networks of computers

  Roger M. Needham, Michael D. Schroeder · 1978 · Communications of the ACM · 1,551 citations

• Enhancing security and privacy in biometrics-based authentication systems

  N. K. Ratha, J. H. Connell, R. M. Bolle · 2001 · IBM Systems Journal · 1,280 citations

• New hash functions and their use in authentication and set equality

  Mark N. Wegman, J.Lawrence Carter · 1981 · Journal of Computer and System Sciences · 995 citations

• Kerberos: an authentication service for computer networks

  B.C. Neuman, T. Ts'o · 1994 · IEEE Communications Magazine · 865 citations

• An Efficient Identity-Based Conditional Privacy-Preserving Authentication Scheme for Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks

  Debiao He, Sherali Zeadally, Baowen Xu · 2015 · IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security · 831 citations

• Authentication and authenticated key exchanges

  Whitfield Diffie, Paul C. Van Oorschot, Michael J. Wiener · 1992 · Designs, Codes and Cryptography · 731 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Blockchain and PUF-Based Lightweight Authentication Protocol for Wireless Medical Sensor Networks

  Weizheng Wang, Qiu Chen, Zhimeng Yin · 2022 · IEEE Internet of Things Journal · 256 citations

• Design of Blockchain-Based Lightweight V2I Handover Authentication Protocol for VANET

  Seunghwan Son, Joonyoung Lee, Yohan Park · 2022 · IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering · 251 citations

• Blockchain-Based Cross-Domain Authentication for Intelligent 5G-Enabled Internet of Drones

  Chaosheng Feng, Bin Liu, Zhen Guo · 2022 · IEEE Internet of Things Journal · 243 citations

• Lightweight and Anonymity-Preserving User Authentication Scheme for IoT-Based Healthcare

  Mehedi Masud, Gurjot Singh Gaba, Karanjeet Choudhary · 2022 · IEEE Internet of Things Journal · 235 citations

• PUF-Based Authentication and Key Agreement Protocols for IoT, WSNs, and Smart Grids: A Comprehensive Survey

  Priyanka Mall, Ruhul Amin, Ashok Kumar Das · 2022 · IEEE Internet of Things Journal · 229 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Start with whySimon Sinek · 2009
• The inspiration of the ScripturesFrancis Landey Patton · 1869
• The Bible, its origin and natureDods, Marcus · 1905
• Moral responsibility, authenticity, and educationIshtiyaque Haji · 2008
• 📕Democracy and authenticityHoward H. Schweber · 2011
• Authenticity as an Ethical IdealSomogy Varga · 2013
• Sincerity and authenticityLionel Trilling · 1972
• 📕Invitation to wholenessJoy Kaipan · 2009

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🔗 Related topics

• E-commerce identification and identification types A whole new range of techniques has been developed to identify people since the 1960s from the measurement and analysis of parts of their bodies to DNA…
• Electronic authentication Electronic authentication is the process of establishing confidence in user identities electronically presented to an information system. Digital authentication…
• Multi-factor authentication Multi-factor authentication (MFA), also known as two-factor authentication (2FA), is an electronic authentication method in which a user is granted access…
• Passwordless authentication Passwordless authentication is an authentication method in which a user can log in to a computer system without entering (and having to remember) a password…
• Authenticator An authenticator is a means used to confirm a user's identity, that is, to perform digital authentication. A person authenticates to a computer system…
• Biometric device A biometric device is a security identification and authentication device. Such devices use automated methods of verifying or recognising the identity…
• Password psychology Password psychology is the study of what makes passwords or cryptographic keys easy to remember or guess. The study lies in the intersection of cryptography…
• Smudge attack A smudge attack is an information extraction attack that discerns the password input of a touchscreen device such as a smartphone or tablet computer from…