Computer Security
Consider a program to display on a local retail store’s website that includes the city’s current time and temperature. In your opinion, who might want to attack the program? What types of harm might they want to cause? What kind of vulnerabilities might they exploit to cause harm?
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Designing an Authentication Scheme
Outline the design of an authentication scheme that ‘learns.’ The authentication scheme would start with certain primitive information about a user, such as name and password. As the use of the computing system continued, the authentication system would gather such information as commonly used programming languages: dates, times, and lengths of computing session, and use of distinctive resources. The authentication challenges would become more individualized as the system learned more information about the user.
Your design should include a list of many pieces of information about a user that the system could collect. It is permissible for the system to ask an authenticated user for certain additional information, such as a favorite book, to use in subsequent challenges.
Your design should also consider the problem of presenting and validating these challenges. Does the would-be user answer a true-false or a multiple-choice question? Does the system interpret natural language prose?
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