A User Study Design for Comparing the Security of Registration Protocols

We present the design of a user study for comparing the security of two registration mechanisms for initializing credentials in machine authentication protocols, such as SiteKey. We discuss ethical and ecological validity challenges we faced in designing our study.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: NSDI
• Authors: Chris Karlof, J. Doug Tygar, David Wagner
• Keywords: Computer Networks, Ecological Validity Challenges, Machine Authentication Protocols, NSDI 2008, User Study