Your song your way: Rhythm-based two-factor authentication for multi-touch mobile devices

Yimin Chen; Jingchao Sun; Rui Zhang; Yanchao Zhang

doi:10.1109/INFOCOM.2015.7218660

Your song your way: Rhythm-based two-factor authentication for multi-touch mobile devices

Yimin Chen, Jingchao Sun, Rui Zhang, Yanchao Zhang

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

36 Scopus citations

Abstract

Multi-touch mobile devices have penetrated into everyday life to support personal and business communications. Secure and usable authentication techniques are indispensable for preventing illegitimate access to mobile devices. This paper presents RhyAuth, a novel two-factor rhythm-based authentication scheme for multi-touch mobile devices. RhyAuth requires a user to perform a sequence of rhythmic taps/slides on a device screen to unlock the device. The user is authenticated and admitted only when the features extracted from her rhythmic taps/slides match those stored on the device. RhyAuth is a two-factor authentication scheme that depends on a user-chosen rhythm and also the behavioral metrics for inputting the rhythm. Through a 32-user experiment on Android devices, we show that RhyAuth is highly secure against various attacks and also very usable for both sighted and visually impaired people.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	2015 IEEE Conference on Computer Communications, IEEE INFOCOM 2015
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	2686-2694
Number of pages	9
ISBN (Electronic)	9781479983810
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/INFOCOM.2015.7218660
State	Published - Aug 21 2015
Event	34th IEEE Annual Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, IEEE INFOCOM 2015 - Hong Kong, Hong Kong Duration: Apr 26 2015 → May 1 2015

Publication series

Name	Proceedings - IEEE INFOCOM
Volume	26
ISSN (Print)	0743-166X

Other

Other	34th IEEE Annual Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, IEEE INFOCOM 2015
Country	Hong Kong
City	Hong Kong
Period	4/26/15 → 5/1/15

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Computer Science(all)
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Chen, Y., Sun, J., Zhang, R., & Zhang, Y. (2015). Your song your way: Rhythm-based two-factor authentication for multi-touch mobile devices. In 2015 IEEE Conference on Computer Communications, IEEE INFOCOM 2015 (pp. 2686-2694). [7218660] (Proceedings - IEEE INFOCOM; Vol. 26). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/INFOCOM.2015.7218660

Your song your way : Rhythm-based two-factor authentication for multi-touch mobile devices. / Chen, Yimin; Sun, Jingchao; Zhang, Rui; Zhang, Yanchao.

2015 IEEE Conference on Computer Communications, IEEE INFOCOM 2015. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2015. p. 2686-2694 7218660 (Proceedings - IEEE INFOCOM; Vol. 26).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Chen, Y, Sun, J, Zhang, R & Zhang, Y 2015, Your song your way: Rhythm-based two-factor authentication for multi-touch mobile devices. in 2015 IEEE Conference on Computer Communications, IEEE INFOCOM 2015., 7218660, Proceedings - IEEE INFOCOM, vol. 26, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., pp. 2686-2694, 34th IEEE Annual Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, IEEE INFOCOM 2015, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 4/26/15. https://doi.org/10.1109/INFOCOM.2015.7218660

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