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In order to protect user privacy on mobile devices, an event-driven implicit authentication scheme is proposed in this paper. Several methods of utilizing the scheme for recognizing legitimate user behavior are investigated. The…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-07-28 Feng Yao , Suleiman Y. Yerima , BooJoong Kang , Sakir Sezer

While mobile devices frequently require users to authenticate to prevent unauthorized access, mobile devices typically do not authenticate to their users. This leaves room for users to unwittingly interact with different mobile devices. We…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Jakob Dittrich , Rainhard Dieter Findling

While passive surfaces offer numerous benefits for interaction in mixed reality, reliably detecting touch input solely from head-mounted cameras has been a long-standing challenge. Camera specifics, hand self-occlusion, and rapid movements…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Paul Streli , Mark Richardson , Fadi Botros , Shugao Ma , Robert Wang , Christian Holz

Smartwatches enable many novel applications and are fast gaining popularity. However, the presence of a diverse set of on-board sensors provides an additional attack surface to malicious software and services on these devices. In this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-10-11 Anindya Maiti , Murtuza Jadliwala , Jibo He , Igor Bilogrevic

In low-resource computing contexts, such as smartphones and other tiny devices, Both deep learning and machine learning are being used in a lot of identification systems. as authentication techniques. The transparent, contactless, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Pangoth Santhosh Kumar , Garika Akshay

Mobile applications are widely used for online services sharing a large amount of personal data online. One-time authentication techniques such as passwords and physiological biometrics (e.g., fingerprint, face, and iris) have their own…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Hossein Fereidooni , Jan König , Phillip Rieger , Marco Chilese , Bora Gökbakan , Moritz Finke , Alexandra Dmitrienko , Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi

Smartphones store a significant amount of personal and private information, and are playing an increasingly important role in people's lives. It is important for authentication techniques to be more resistant against two known attacks…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Matthew Lakier , Dimcho Karakashev , Yixin Wang , Ian Goldberg

The Internet of Things (IoT) is increasingly empowering people with an interconnected world of physical objects ranging from smart buildings to portable smart devices such as wearables. With the recent advances in mobile sensing, wearables…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Sudip Vhaduri , Christian Poellabauer

Secure pairing is essential for trustworthy deployment and operation of Internet of Things (IoT) devices. However, traditional pairing methods are unsuitable due to the lack of user interfaces such as keyboards. Proximity-based approaches…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Chuxiong Wu , Xiaopeng Li , Lannan Luo , Qiang Zeng

Nowadays, mobile smart devices are widely used in daily life. It is increasingly important to prevent malicious users from accessing private data, thus a secure and convenient authentication method is urgently needed. Compared with common…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Yadong Xie , Fan Li , Yu Wang

We present SMAUG (Secure Mobile Authentication Using Gestures), a novel biometric assisted authentication algorithm for mobile devices that is solely based on data collected from multiple sensors that are usually installed on modern devices…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-08-17 Christian A. Gorke , Frederik Armknecht

In this paper, we introduce a lightweight permission enforcement approach - Tap-Wave-Rub (TWR) - for smartphone malware prevention. TWR is based on simple human gestures that are very quick and intuitive but less likely to be exhibited in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-02-19 Haoyu Li , Di Ma , Nitesh Saxena , Babins Shrestha , Yan Zhu

Smartwatches offer powerful features, but their small touchscreens limit the expressiveness of the input that can be achieved. To address this issue, we present, and open-source, the first sonar-based around-device input on an unmodified…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Jiwan Kim , Jiwan Son , Ian Oakley

Since ancient Greece, handshaking has been commonly practiced between two people as a friendly gesture to express trust and respect, or form a mutual agreement. In this paper, we show that such physical contact can be used to bootstrap…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-01-24 Yiran Shen , Fengyuan Yang , Bowen Du , Weitao Xu , Chengwen Luo , Hongkai Wen

The majority of systems rely on user authentication on passwords, but passwords have so many weaknesses and widespread use that easily raise significant security concerns, regardless of their encrypted form. Users hold the same password for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-22 Vassilis Papaspirou , Leandros Maglaras , Mohamed Amine Ferrag , Ioanna Kantzavelou , Helge Janicke , Christos Douligeris

Online signature verification technologies, such as those available in banks and post offices, rely on dedicated digital devices such as tablets or smart pens to capture, analyze and verify signatures. In this paper, we suggest a novel…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-12-20 Ben Nassi , Alona Levy , Yuval Elovici , Erez Shmueli

Two-factor authentication protects online accounts even if passwords are leaked. Most users, however, prefer password-only authentication. One reason why two-factor authentication is so unpopular is the extra steps that the user must…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-08-04 Nikolaos Karapanos , Claudio Marforio , Claudio Soriente , Srdjan Capkun

Design of clock synchronization for networked nodes faces a fundamental trade-off between synchronization accuracy and universality for heterogeneous platforms, because a high synchronization accuracy generally requires platform-dependent…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Zhenyu Yan , Yang Li , Rui Tan , Jun Huang

Touch surfaces are widely utilized for smartphones, tablet PCs, and laptops (touchpad), and single and double taps are the most basic and common operations on them. The detection of single or double taps causes the single-tap latency…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Naoto Nishida , Kaori Ikematsu , Junichi Sato , Shota Yamanaka , Kota Tsubouchi

This paper presents a visual passwords system to increase security. The system depends mainly on recognizing the speaker using the visual speech signal alone. The proposed scheme works in two stages: setting the visual password stage and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-09-04 Ahmad Basheer Hassanat