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Proposes a simple digital password authentication method for mobile phones. Improves the authentication program by introducing random numbers and increasing the number of constant numbers. The input number of the six passwords increases correspondingly with location. The authentication order of the current authentication password is determined according to the cyclic order of the cyclic constants and the dynamic nature of the authentication cipher is achieved. The improved authentication process: this paper calculates the user’s input code and the random number, preserves the final number of the results. Authentication is accomplished by verifying the correspondence of the last digits to the stored passwords. If the result is consistent the authentication is passed otherwise the authentication fails. The randomness of the cipher is improved by adding random numbers. The randomness of the password is increased by increasing the random number. At the same time, the upper limit of authentication failure is set and the password is automatically updated when the upper limit is reached. Experiments show that this improved Android system digital password authentication method can effectively resist attacks such as shoulder peeping attacks, stain attacks and guessing attacks, thus increasing the security of mobile authentication.
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This work is supported by the National Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 61462009, Science Research Project 2014 of the China-ASEAN Study Center (Guangxi Science Experiment Center) of Guangxi University for Nationalities, No. TD201404 and Innovation Project of Guangxi University for Nationalities Graduate Education, No. gxun-chxps201766. The authors would like to thank Prof. Lina Ge for their valuable comments which greatly improved the presentation of the paper.
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Geng, B., Ge, L., Wang, Q., Wang, L. (2018). Improved Digital Password Authentication Method for Android System. In: Huang, DS., Jo, KH., Zhang, XL. (eds) Intelligent Computing Theories and Application. ICIC 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10955. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95933-7_86
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