Year
2024
Season
Fall
Paper Type
Master's Thesis
College
College of Computing, Engineering & Construction
Degree Name
Master of Science in Computer and Information Sciences (MS)
Department
Computing
NACO controlled Corporate Body
University of North Florida. School of Computing
First Advisor
Dr. Swapnoneel Roy
Second Advisor
Dr. Sandeep Reddivari
Third Advisor
Dr. Iman Vakilinia
Department Chair
Dr. Zornitza Prodanoff
College Dean
Dr. William Klostermeyer
Abstract
Most organizations have established strong password policies and standards to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of their data, applications, and critical systems. Even with rigorous implementations and layered approaches such as utilizing multifactor authentications, there are still flaws and vulnerabilities as they have a high dependency on the user adhering to them. In conjunction with these policies, a strong security awareness program should be implemented to educate the end user about strong password hygiene. In this work, we design and implement a secure one-time password (OTP) system, “PassPerfect”, to provide a method of enforcing a strong set of password policies that bypass natural human habits of choosing passwords that do not adhere to the policies of an organization on their own. When users do this, they leave systems vulnerable to security threats. As part of a secure software development life cycle to ensure that there are no coding defects, errors, or vulnerabilities, a secure code review on PassPerfect is completed through static, functional, and/or dynamic code analysis.
Suggested Citation
Crawshaw, Charlene H., "Passperfect: A secure one time password authentication system" (2024). UNF Graduate Theses and Dissertations. 1310.
https://digitalcommons.unf.edu/etd/1310
