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A Secure Image-Based Authentication Scheme for Mobile Devices

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Advances in Intelligent Computing (ICIC 2005)

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Motivated by the need for designing secure and user-friendly authentication method for mobile devices, we present a novel image-based authentication (IBA) scheme in this paper. Its mnemonics efficacy rests on the human cognitive ability of association-based memorization. To tackle the shoulder-surfing attack issue, an interactive authentication process is presented. System performance analysis and comparisons with other schemes are presented to support our proposals.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), A*STAR, 119613, Singapore

    Zhi Li & Qibin Sun

  2. Department of ECE, National University of Singapore, 119260, Singapore

    Zhi Li & Yong Lian

  3. Department of EEE, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, 09123, Italy

    D. D. Giusto

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  1. Intelligent Computing Lab, Institute of Intelligent Machines, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

    De-Shuang Huang

  2. School of Computer & Information Technology, Beijing Jiaotong University, 100044, Beijing, P.R. China

    Xiao-Ping Zhang

  3. School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

    Guang-Bin Huang

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Li, Z., Sun, Q., Lian, Y., Giusto, D.D. (2005). A Secure Image-Based Authentication Scheme for Mobile Devices. In: Huang, DS., Zhang, XP., Huang, GB. (eds) Advances in Intelligent Computing. ICIC 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3645. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11538356_78

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