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This document discusses graphical passwords as an alternative to text passwords. It begins with an introduction and overview of authentication methods, including the drawbacks of text passwords. It then describes recall-based and recognition-based graphical password techniques. The document discusses specific graphical password schemes, including Draw-a-Secret, PassPoints, and Passfaces. It notes the advantages of graphical passwords being more secure and harder to guess but also the disadvantages of being slower to use and more vulnerable to shoulder surfing. The conclusion is that graphical passwords satisfy the conflicting needs of ease of use and security but are still an immature technology.

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Graphicalpswrdauth 130518230955 Phpapp02

This document discusses graphical passwords as an alternative to text passwords. It begins with an introduction and overview of authentication methods, including the drawbacks of text passwords. It then describes recall-based and recognition-based graphical password techniques. The document discusses specific graphical password schemes, including Draw-a-Secret, PassPoints, and Passfaces. It notes the advantages of graphical passwords being more secure and harder to guess but also the disadvantages of being slower to use and more vulnerable to shoulder surfing. The conclusion is that graphical passwords satisfy the conflicting needs of ease of use and security but are still an immature technology.

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PRESENTED BY

Asim Kumar
Pathak
CS-47/09
Introduction
Overview of the Authentication Methods
Text Password and drawbacks.
Graphical Passwords.
The survey
 Recall Based Techniques
 Recognition Based Techniques
Discussion
 Advantages
 disadvantages
Conclusion
 What is PASSWORD

The term PASSWORD commonly refers to a secret used for


authentication. Passwords are the most commonly used method for
identifying users in computer and communication systems.

 PASSWORDS are used for:

 Logging into accounts.


 Retrieving emails.
 Accessing applications.
 Networks.
 Websites
 Databases
 workstations
 Token based authentication
 Key cards, bank cards, smart card, …

 Biometric based authentication


 Fingerprints, iris scan, facial recognition, …

 Knowledge based authentication


 Text-based passwords, picture-based passwords, …
 Most widely used authentication techniques
Text Password
Text password is a secret word or string of characters that is
used for user authentication to prove his identity and gain access
to resources.

Drawback
 Difficulty of remembering passwords.
easy to remember -> easy to guess

 hard to guess -> hard to remember

 Vulnerable to attacks like Dictionary attack, Brute


force
attack .
Many solutions have been proposed. Graphical
passwordis one of the solutions.
 Graphical passwords were originally described by BLONDER
in 1996.

 A graphical password is an authentication system that


works by having the user select from images, in a specific
order, presented in a graphical user interface (GUI).

 For this reason, the graphical-password approach is


sometimes called graphical user authentication (GUA).
Use of graphical password:

 Web log-in application.

 ATM machine.

 Mobile device.
 Recall Based Techniques
A user is asked to reproduce something that he created or
selected earlier during the registration stage

 Recognition Based Techniques


A user is presented with a set of images and the user passes the
authentication by recognizing and identifying the images he
selected during the registration stage
 Draw-A-Secret (DAS) Scheme
 User draws a simple picture on a 2D grid, the coordinates of the
grids occupied by the picture are stored in the order of drawing.

 Redrawing has to touch


the same grids in the
same sequence in
authentication.
 Signature scheme
Here authentication is conducted by having the user drawing
their signature using a mouse.
 Pass Point Scheme
User click on any place on an image to create a password. A
tolerance around each chosen pixel is calculated. In order to be
authenticated, user must click within the tolerances in the
correct sequence.
 Dhamija and Perrig Scheme
Pick several pictures out of many choices, identify them later
in authentication.
 Passface scheme:
In this technique human faces are used as password.
 Sobrado and Birget Scheme
System display a number of pass-objects (pre-selected by user)
among many other objects, user click inside the convex hull
bounded by pass-objects.
 Advantages of Graphical password

 Graphical password schemes provide a way of making more


human-friendly passwords .

 Here the security of the system is very high.

 Dictionary attacks and brute force search are infeasible.


 Disadvantages of Graphical password

 Password registration and log-in process take too long.

 Require much more storage space than text based passwords.

 Shoulder Surfing .

- As the name implies, shoulder surfing is watching over people's


shoulders as they process information.

- Because of their graphic nature, nearly all graphical password schemes


are quite vulnerable to shoulder surfing.
 Graphical passwords are an alternative to textual alphanumeric
password.

It satisfies both conflicting requirements i.e. it is easy to


remember & it is hard to guess.

By the solution of the shoulder surfing problem, it becomes more


secure & easier password scheme.

Not yet widely used, current graphical password techniques are


still immature.
THANK
YOU…

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