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Sanam Ghorbani Lyastani
dblp:211/8100
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3ranked-venue papers
3as first author
1since 2021 · last 2023
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Security and privacy · 3 · 3 first-author · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Network and information security
3 papers |
Authentication and access control · 65% Usable security · 35% |
Topics — the 6 heaviest of 7, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Usable security
authentication usability |
1.1 | 2 | 2023 | A Systematic Study of the Consistency of Two-Factor Authentication User Journeys on Top-Ranked Websites · NDSS 2023 Is FIDO2 the Kingslayer of User Authentication? A Comparative Usability Study of FIDO2 Passwordless Authentication · SP 2020 |
Authentication and access control › multi-factor authentication
two-factor authentication |
0.7 | 1 | 2023 | A Systematic Study of the Consistency of Two-Factor Authentication User Journeys on Top-Ranked Websites · NDSS 2023 |
Authentication and access control › passwordless authentication
FIDO2 |
0.4 | 1 | 2020 | Is FIDO2 the Kingslayer of User Authentication? A Comparative Usability Study of FIDO2 Passwordless Authentication · SP 2020 |
Authentication and access control
passwordless authentication |
0.4 | 1 | 2020 | Is FIDO2 the Kingslayer of User Authentication? A Comparative Usability Study of FIDO2 Passwordless Authentication · SP 2020 |
Authentication and access control › password security › password management
password managers |
0.3 | 1 | 2018 | Better managed than memorized? Studying the Impact of Managers on Password Strength and Reuse · USENIX Security Symposium 2018 |
Authentication and access control
password security |
0.3 | 1 | 2018 | Better managed than memorized? Studying the Impact of Managers on Password Strength and Reuse · USENIX Security Symposium 2018 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
user study · 0.8lab study · 0.4
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | A Systematic Study of the Consistency of Two-Factor Authentication User Journeys on Top-Ranked Websites
Sanam Ghorbani Lyastani, Michael Backes 0001, Sven Bugiel |
NDSS | 1 |
| 2020 | Is FIDO2 the Kingslayer of User Authentication? A Comparative Usability Study of FIDO2 Passwordless AuthenticationabstractThe newest contender for succeeding passwords as the incumbent web authentication scheme is the FIDO2 standard. Jointly developed and backed by the FIDO Alliance and the W3C, FIDO2 has found support in virtually every browser, finds increasing support by service providers, and has adoptions beyond browser-software on its way. While it supports MFA and 2FA, its single-factor, passwordless authentication with security tokens has received the bulk of attention and was hailed by its supporters and the media as the solution that will replace text-passwords on the web. Despite its obvious security and deployability benefits—a setting that no prior solution had in this strong combination—the paradigm shift from a familiar knowledge factor to purely a possession factor raises questions about the acceptance of passwordless authentication by end-users.This paper presents the first large-scale lab study of FIDO2 single-factor authentication to collect insights about end-users’ perception, acceptance, and concerns about passwordless authentication. Through hands-on tasks our participants gather first-hand experience with passwordless authentication using a security key, which they afterwards reflect on in a survey. Our results show that users are willing to accept a direct replacement of text-based passwords with a security key for single-factor authentication. That is an encouraging result in the quest to replace passwords. But, our results also identify new concerns that can potentially hinder the widespread adoption of FIDO2 passwordless authentication. In order to mitigate these factors, we derive concrete recommendations to try to help in the ongoing proliferation of passwordless authentication on the web. Sanam Ghorbani Lyastani, Michael Schilling 0001, Michaela Neumayr, Michael Backes 0001, Sven Bugiel |
SP | 1 |
| 2018 | Better managed than memorized? Studying the Impact of Managers on Password Strength and Reuse
Sanam Ghorbani Lyastani, Michael Schilling 0001, Sascha Fahl, Michael Backes 0001, Sven Bugiel |
USENIX Security Symposium | 1 |