Work

MAPS

Year: 2015

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: It has been long recognized that no silver bullet exists to achieve both security and memorability. With the addition of requirements, the task of designing authentication schemes for mobile devices becomes more challenging. We propose a Multi-dimensionAl Password Scheme (MAPS) for mobile authentication. MAPS fuses information from multiple dimensions to form a password. This fusion enlarges the password space, improves memorability, and enhances usability by reducing the number of gestures needed for authentication. Based on the idea of MAPS, we implement a Chess-based MAPS (CMAPS) for Android systems. Our user studies show that CMAPS can achieve high recall rates while exceeding the security strength of current mobile authentication schemes and exceeding the requirements of banking.

Source: ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces (ITS)

DOI: 10.1145/2817721.2823479

Authors: Jonathan Gurary, Ye Zhu, George Corser, Jared Oluoch, Nahed Alnahash, Huirong Fu

Institutions: Cleveland State University, Oakland University

Language: English

Topic: User Authentication and Security Systems

Subfield: Information Systems

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: bronze

Funder: National Science Foundation

Awards: MRI: Acquisition of a 4G/LTE Wireless Communications Test Set, EAGER: The Game Changer: A New Model for Password Security