Making a good thing better: Enhancing password/PIN-based user authentication with smartwatch

• Main Authors: CHANG, Bing, LI, Yingjiu, WANG, Qiongxiao, ZHU, Wen-Tao, DENG, Robert H.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2018
• Subjects: Wearable devices; User authentication; Sensor; Machine learning; Deep learning; Information Security
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/4387; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/5390/viewcontent/s42400_018_0009_4.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Wearing smartwatches becomes increasingly popular in people’s lives. This paper shows that a smartwatch can help its bearer authenticate to a login system effectively and securely even if the bearer’s password has already been revealed. This idea is motivated by our observation that a sensor-rich sm...