{"id":13419,"date":"2021-12-10T20:21:38","date_gmt":"2021-12-11T01:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/?page_id=13419"},"modified":"2026-06-02T14:59:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T18:59:23","slug":"tr-17-01-no-passwords-needed-the-iterative-design-of-a-parent-child-authentication-mechanism","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/research\/scs-technical-reports\/technical-reports-2017\/tr-17-01-no-passwords-needed-the-iterative-design-of-a-parent-child-authentication-mechanism\/","title":{"rendered":"TR-17-01: No passwords needed: The iterative design of a parent-child authentication mechanism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        TR-17-01: No passwords needed: The iterative design of a parent-child authentication mechanism\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Carleton University<br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/research\/scs-technical-reports\/technical-reports-2017\/\">Technical Report<\/a> TR-17-01<br>\nFebruary 13, 2017<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"no-passwords-needed-the-iterative-design-of-a-parent-child-authentication-mechanism\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">No passwords needed: The iterative design of a parent-child authentication mechanism<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"tr_t3\">\n<div class=\"tr_t3\">\n<div class=\"tr_t3\">\n<div class=\"tr_t3\">\n<div class=\"tr_t3\">\n<div class=\"tr_t3\">\n<div class=\"tr_t3\">\n<div class=\"tr_t3\">\n<div class=\"tr_t3\">Kalpana Hundlani, Sonia Chiasson, Larry Hamid<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>Abstract<\/h3>\n<p>Despite the fact that the vast majority of children are online, our exploration of the user authentication literature and avail- able tools revealed few alternatives specifically for authenti- cating children. We create an authentication mechanism that reduces the password burden for children and adds customiz- able parental oversight to increase security. With Bluink, our industry partner, we iteratively designed and user tested three parent-child prototypes, with each iteration addressing issues raised in the previous iteration. Our final design is a parent- child authentication mechanism based on OpenID and FIDO U2F which allows children to log in to websites without re- quiring a password and enables parents using their mobile device to remotely determine whether a login request should be granted.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/260\/2017_TR-17-01-kindersurf_hundlani_chiasson_hamid-1.pdf\">TR-17-01.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carleton University Technical Report TR-17-01 February 13, 2017 No passwords needed: The iterative design of a parent-child authentication mechanism Kalpana Hundlani, Sonia Chiasson, Larry Hamid Abstract Despite the fact that the vast majority of children are online, our exploration of the user authentication literature and avail- able tools revealed few alternatives specifically for authenti- cating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":12544,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cu_dining_location_slug":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_page_type":[],"class_list":["post-13419","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13420,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13419\/revisions\/13420"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_page_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_page_type?post=13419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}