Shoulder Surfing Resistant Graphical Authentication System

Shoulder Surfing Resistant Graphical Authentication System

Nishant Pawar ¹, Amir Shaikh², Rakesh More³, Altaf Shaikh⁴

Sir Visvesvaraya Institute of Technology Nashik

 Abstract - In modern IT world computer as well as information security is the most significant challenge. Authorized users should access the system or information. Password ensures that computer or information can be accessed by those who have been granted right to view or access them. Traditional password technique is a textual password which is also called alphanumeric password. But these textual passwords are easy to crack through various types of attack. So to overcome these vulnerabilities, a graphical password technique is introduced. To overcome this problem, we proposed a novel authentication system PassMatrix, based on graphical passwords to resist shoulder surfing attacks. With a one-time valid login indicator and circulative horizontal and vertical bars covering the entire scope of pass-images, PassMatrix offers no hint for attackers to figure out or narrow down the password even they conduct multiple camera-based attacks. We also implemented a PassMatrix prototype on Android and carried out real user experiments to evaluate its memorability and usability. From the experimental result, the proposed system achieves better resistance to shoulder surfing attacks while maintaining usability.

Keywords -  Graphical Password, Usability Authentication, Authentication, Shoulder Surfing Attacks, Graphical Passwords