Principal Investigator Abel Sanchez
The goal of this project is to do a Negative Authentication implementation. The Negative Filtering or Negative Authentication (NA) approach utilizes a form of complement profiles which resembles the censoring and maturation process of T- cells in the immune system. The scope and applicability issues of this approach in the context of existing (positive) authentication systems have been discussed. The negative authentication is implemented using a real-valued negative selection algorithm.
The objectives of the research are to provide a robust solution to immunizing authentication systems (local or remote) by putting an additional invisible layer of password protection to the user. In particular:
(*) Design and develop a unique multi-layered system that acts as a shield to obfuscate the positive authentication system. The study will explore any measures taken to ensure even if the Anti-Passwords (detectors) are compromised, deriving an individual password is not possible. The purpose is to make the process of authentication more secure while, at the same time, meeting a reasonable time constraint.(*) Implement negative selection algorithms to generate multiple Anti-Password (Anti-P) sets with different detection capabilities to provide enough coverage with obfuscation.