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Increasing the security of gaze-based cued-recall graphical passwords using saliency masks

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Publication date2012
Host publicationProceedings of the 2012 ACM annual conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Place of PublicationNew York
PublisherACM
Pages3011-3020
Number of pages10
ISBN (print)978-1-4503-1015-4
<mark>Original language</mark>English

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NameCHI '12
PublisherACM

Abstract

With computers being used ever more ubiquitously in situations where privacy is important, secure user authentication is a central requirement. Gaze-based graphical passwords are a particularly promising means for shoulder-surfing-resistant authentication, but selecting secure passwords remains challenging. In this paper, we present a novel gaze-based authentication scheme that makes use of cued-recall graphical passwords on a single image. In order to increase password security, our approach uses a computational model of visual attention to mask those areas of the image that are most likely to attract visual attention. We create a realistic threat model for attacks that may occur in public settings, such as filming the user's interaction while drawing money from an ATM. Based on a 12-participant user study, we show that our approach is significantly more secure than a standard image-based authentication and gaze-based 4-digit PIN entry.