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User authentication using keystroke dynamics for cellular phones

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A new approach for keystroke-based authentication when using a cellular phone keypad as input device is presented. In the proposed method, users are authenticated using keystroke dynamics acquired when typing fixed alphabetic strings on a mobile phone keypad. The employed statistical classifier is able to perform user verification with an average equal error rate of about 13%. The obtained experimental results suggest that, when using mobile devices, a strong secure authentication scheme cannot rely on the sole keystroke dynamics, which however can be a module of a more complex system including, as basic security, a password-based protocol eventually hardened by keystroke analysis.

Inspec keywords: cellular radio; cryptography; protocols

Other keywords: cellular phones; cellular phone keypad; user authentication; keystroke-based authentication; password-based protocol; statistical classifier; keystroke dynamics; keystroke analysis

Subjects: Mobile radio systems; Protocols; Cryptography

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