Authentication and Access Control: Practical Cryptography Methods and Tools

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S. BoonkrongAuthentication and Access Controlhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6570-3_3

3. Methods and Threats of Authentication

Sirapat Boonkrong¹  

(1)

Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand

 

In an ideal world, we would like to use the best technologies to countermeasure the risks to confidentiality, integrity, and availability. It is learned in the previous chapters that confidentiality is achieved by the use of encryption and the integrity of data can be inspected by the use of cryptographic hash functions. This chapter will look at another aspect of information and communication security, which is access control mechanism. Access control deals with the availability ...