Displaying items by tag: Arvind Narayanan

Using SMS as a means for two-factor authentication can be the weak link that leads to account compromise, according to Arvind Narayanan, an associate professor of Computer Science at Princeton University, who outlined an easy way that he and three of his colleagues had tested out to compromise accounts.

Cryptography expert Ronald Rivest has dismissed the idea that blockchains would be of any use in voting systems, saying it was something like bringing a combination lock to a kitchen fire.