Shoulder Surfing Resistance Using PENUP Event And Neighboring Connectivity Manipulation

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Por Lip Yee
Miss Laiha Mat Kiah

Abstract

Picture-based password has been proposed as an alternative authentication method to replace text-based password. Ensuring the security of picture-based password is not a simple task as picture-based objects are a lot easier to access and remember and can thus be easily guessed. In particular, shoulder surfing attack still remains as the main security threat encountered by many picture-based password authentication schemes, especially in drawmetric authentication scheme. In this paper, a novel shoulder surfing resistance mechanism has been proposed and evaluated. The proposed mechanism utilises penup event and neighbouring connectivity manipulation into a revised Background Pass-Go scheme. From the evaluation result, it has proven that the proposed mechanism achieves better results in resisting shoulder surfing attack while, at the same time, allowing a larger password space.

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Yee, P. L., & Mat Kiah, M. L. (2010). Shoulder Surfing Resistance Using PENUP Event And Neighboring Connectivity Manipulation. Malaysian Journal of Computer Science, 23(2), 121–140. Retrieved from http://jice.um.edu.my/index.php/MJCS/article/view/6404
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