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Multilevel Verification and User Recognition Strategy for E-mail Clients

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User authentication and identification have always represented a challenge in web-based e-mail systems. The text-based authentication and user identification are not sufficient to address the security issues facing web-based e-mail systems. This sort of security is completely retrograde and obsolete for current security threats that easily undermine authentication, identification and non-repudiation. In this paper, a security increase in e-mail client is proposed by introducing multiple-level authentication and identification in e-mail clients. The proposed multilevel authentication and identification consist of four levels, where level-1 is the text-based authentication, level-2 involves an image based authentication and finally level-3 and level-4 use a specific algorithm that exploits the powerful properties of two mathematical operators called Pentors and UltraPentors applied against the image in level-2.

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  1. South East European University, Ilindenska no. 335, 1200, Tetovo, Macedonia

    Artan Luma, Bujar Raufi & Burim Ismaili

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  1. Department of Multimedia Engineering, College of Engineering, Mokpo National University, Mokpo, Jeonnam, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)

    Gi-Chul Yang

  2. Unit 1, 1/F IAENG Secretariat, International Association of Engine, Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR

    Sio-Iong Ao

  3. Department of Applied Mathematics and Computing, Cranfield University, Cranfield, Bedfordshire, United Kingdom

    Len Gelman

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Luma, A., Raufi, B., Ismaili, B. (2014). Multilevel Verification and User Recognition Strategy for E-mail Clients. In: Yang, GC., Ao, SI., Gelman, L. (eds) Transactions on Engineering Technologies. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8832-8_46

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