ANALYSIS AND IMPROVEMENT OF A PIN-ENTRY METHOD

RESILIENT TO SHOULDER SURFING AND RECIRDING ATTAKS

 E.LEKSHMI 1& B.BENEDIC DHONA2
PG SCHOLAR1, & ASSISTANT PROFESSOR2
ME, COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
Vins Christian Women’s College of Engineering
Email: lekshmi.bahath@gmail.com
ABSTRACT

Personal identification number (PIN) is common authentication method used in

various devices like ATM's, mobile devices and electronic door locks. Planning a user
authentication scheme based on PIN that is both secure and practically usable is a
challenging problem. The greatest difficulty lies with the susceptibility of the PIN entry
process to direct observational attacks, such as human shoulder-surfing and camera-
based recording. The PIN entry can be perceived by close by adversaries, more
effectually in a crowded place. This paper starts with an examination of a previous
attempt at solving the PIN entry problem, which was based on an elegant adaptive
black-and-white colouring of the 10-digit keypad in the standard layout. Even though
the method required uncomfortably many user inputs, it had the merit of being easy to
understand and use. Analysis takes both the experimental and theoretical approaches
reveals multiple serious shortcomings of the previous method, including round
redundancy, unbalanced key presses, highly frequent system errors, and insufficient
resilience to recording attacks. lessons learned through our analysis are then used to
improve the black and-white PIN entry scheme. New scheme has the remarkable
property of resisting camera-based recording attacks over an unlimited number of
authentication sessions without leaking any of the PIN digits. Initiatives has taken
within the limitations of this protocol to have the Color Pin, Audio, image ( Face
Capturing), Additional Pin methods to Overcome the threat without affecting the core
concept.