A Novel Approach for Identification and Authentication of Users in a Pervasive Environment

Pervasive computing is a relatively new area of interest within computer science. Most of the challenges faced so far have been technical, as much of the research has been on implementation and the integration of various technologies in the pervasive environment [2]. Although such issues are important and should continue to be studied, they do not address vitally important issues of truly pervasive computing: security and privacy. As computing is moving away from our homes and offices and into our streets, current privacy and security issues are obsolete and need to be modified for our new environment: our pervasive computing world.