Employing smartwatch for enhanced password authentication

• Main Authors: CHANG, Bing, LIU, Ximing, LI, Yingjiu, WANG, Pingjian, ZHU, Wen-Tao, WANG, Zhan
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2017
• Subjects: Wearable devices; User authentication; Sensor; Machine learning; Information Security; Software Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/3804; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/4806/viewcontent/101007_2F978_3_319_60033_8_59.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

This paper presents an enhanced password authentication scheme by systematically exploiting the motion sensors in a smartwatch. We extract unique features from the sensor data when a smartwatch bearer types his/her password (or PIN), and train certain machine learning classifiers using these feature...