Seminar On..

Graphical
Password
Authentication

Submitted By: Achal S. Khawale.

Guided By: Prof.S.N.Khandare.
Department Of (M.C.A.3rd)
H.V.P.M. Amravati.
2013-2014

Contents:
Introduction
Graphical Password
Advantages of Graphical Password
Drawbacks
Solution to Shoulder Surfing Problem
Usability
Conclusion

Introduction:
Most common computer authentication method (Text-Based
Passwords).
Difficulty of remembering passwords.
Easy to remember => Easy to guess
Hard to guess => Hard to remember
Users tend to write passwords down or use the same

passwords for

different accounts.

An alternative: Graphical Passwords.

Psychological studies: Human can remember pictures better than text.

Graphical Password:
An authentication system that works by having the user select
from images, in a specific order, presented in a graphical user
interface (GUI).
The graphical-password approach is sometimes called graphical
user authentication (GUI).

Classification Techniques:
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.

Recall Based Techniques:

A user is asked to reproduce something that he created or
selected earlier during the registration stage.

Classification Techniques:
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.

Recall Based Techniques:

A user is asked to reproduce something that he created or
selected earlier during the registration stage.

Recognition Based Techniques:

Dhamija & Perring Scheme: Sobrado & Birget Scheme:
Pick several pictures out of many Systems display a number of
choices, identify later in
pass-objects (pre-selected by user)
authentication.
among many other objects, user
Take longer to create graphical click inside the convex hull ounded
passwords.
by pass-objects.

Recognition Based Techniques:

Other Schemes:

Using human faces as password

Select a sequence of images as password

Recall Based techniques:

Draw-A-Secret (DAS) Scheme:
User draws a simple picture on 2D grid, the co ordinates
of the grids occupied by the picture are stored in the order
of drawing.
Redrawing has to touch the
same grids in the same
sequences in authentication.

Advantages of Graphical Passwords:

Provide a way of making more human-friendly

passwords while increasing the level of security.
On averagemillions of years to break into the system.
Dictionary attacks are infeasible.

Drawbacks:
The shoulder surfing problem:
As the name implies, shoulder is watching over peoples shoulders as
they process information.
Example includes observing the keyboard as a person types his or her
password, enters a PIN number, or views personal information.
Because of their graphic nature, nearly all graphical password
schemes are quite vulnerable to shoulder surfing. Most of the existing
schemes simple circumvent the problem by stating the graphical
passwords should only be used with handheld devices or workstation set
up in such a way that only one person can see the screen at the time of
login.
However, it is possible to create schemes to counter shoulder surfing
problem.

Solution of Shoulder surfing problem:

Triangle Scheme:

Movable Frame Scheme:

Usability:
Pictures are easier to remember than text strings.
Password registration and login process take too long.
Require much more storage space than text based passwords.

Conclusion:
Main argument for Graphical Password:
Satisfies both conflicting requirements i.e. it is easy to remember & it is
hard to guess.

More difficult to break graphical passwords from traditional

attack methods:
Brute Force Search
Dictionary Attack
Spyware

Not yet widely used, current graphical password techniques are

still immature.
By implementing other special geometric configurations like
triangle & movable frame, one can achieve more security.

Reference
www.searchsecurity.teachtarget.com
www.acsac.org
www.ieexplorer.ieee.org

QUESTIONS

Thank
You.!!!