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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

Smart devices, such as light bulbs, TVs, fridges, etc., equipped with computing capabilities and wireless communication, are part of everyday life in many households. Previous work has already shown that a passive eavesdropper can derive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Arne Roszeitis , Bartosz Burgiel , Victor Jüttner , Erik Buchmann

We propose Secure Pick Up (SPU), a convenient, lightweight, in-device, non-intrusive and automatic-learning system for smartphone user authentication. Operating in the background, our system implicitly observes users' phone pick-up…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-08-31 Wei-Han Lee , Xiaochen Liu , Yilin Shen , Hongxia Jin , Ruby B. Lee

Electronic locks can provide security- and convenience-enhancing features, with fingerprint readers an increasingly common feature in these products. When equipped with a wireless radio, they become a smart lock and join the billions of IoT…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Steve Kerrison

Decoding human activity accurately from wearable sensors can aid in applications related to healthcare and context awareness. The present approaches in this domain use recurrent and/or convolutional models to capture the spatio-temporal…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-12-21 Satya P. Singh , Aimé Lay-Ekuakille , Deepak Gangwar , Madan Kumar Sharma , Sukrit Gupta

In a spoofing attack, an attacker impersonates a legitimate user to access or modify data belonging to the latter. Typical approaches for spoofing detection in the physical layer declare an attack when a change is observed in certain…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-18 Daniel Romero , Tien Ngoc Ha , Peter Gerstoft

In this paper, we show that the tap gesture, performed when a user 'taps' a smartwatch onto an NFC-enabled terminal to make a payment, is a biometric capable of implicitly authenticating the user and simultaneously recognising…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Jack Sturgess , Simon Eberz , Ivo Sluganovic , Ivan Martinovic

Smartphones contain information that is more sensitive and personal than those found on computers and laptops. With an increase in the versatility of smartphone functionality, more data has become vulnerable and exposed to attackers.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-02-15 Sai Vishwanath Venkatesh , Prasanna D. Kumaran , Joish J Bosco , Pravin R. Kumaar , Vineeth Vijayaraghavan

Internet of Things (IoT) devices have grown in popularity since they can directly interact with the real world. Home automation systems automate these interactions. IoT events are crucial to these systems' decision-making but are often…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Uzma Maroof , Gustavo Batista , Arash Shaghaghi , Sanjay Jha

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have recently attracted a lot of interest in the research community due their wide range of applications. Unfortunately, these networks are vulnerable to numerous security threats that can adversely affect…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Jaydip Sen

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have recently attracted a lot of interest in the research community due their wide range of applications. Unfortunately, these networks are vulnerable to numerous security threats that can adversely affect…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-09-09 Jaydip Sen , Sripad Krishna

Development of information technology, especially in the field of computer network allows the exchange of information faster and more complex and the data that is exchanged can vary. Security of data on communication in the network is a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-08-25 Heru Pranata , Leon Andretti Abdillah , Usman Ependi

Sensors (e.g., light, gyroscope, accelerotmeter) and sensing enabled applications on a smart device make the applications more user-friendly and efficient. However, the current permission-based sensor management systems of smart devices…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-07-03 Amit Kumar Sikder , Hidayet Aksu , A. Selcuk Uluagac

Given the nature of mobile devices and unlock procedures, unlock authentication is a prime target for credential leaking via shoulder surfing, a form of an observation attack. While the research community has investigated solutions to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Adam J. Aviv , John T. Davin , Flynn Wolf , Ravi Kuber

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

Deep learning methods can play a crucial role in anomaly detection, prediction, and supporting decision making for applications like personal health-care, pervasive body sensing, etc. However, current architecture of deep networks suffers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-22 Hao Dong , Chao Wu , Zhen Wei , Yike Guo

Smart wearable devices (SWDs) collect and store sensitive daily information of many people. Its primary method of identification is still the password unlocking method. However, several studies have shown serious security flaws in that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Yu Su , Yongjiao Li , Zhu Cao

The emergence of smartwatches poses new challenges to information security. Although there are mature touch-based authentication methods for smartphones, the effectiveness of using these methods on smartwatches is still unclear. We…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2017-10-13 Yue Zhao , Zhongtian Qiu , Yiqing Yang , Weiwei Li , Mingming Fan

With more and more existing networks being transformed to Software-Defined Networking (SDN), they need to be more secure and demand smarter ways of traffic control. This work, SmartSecChain-SDN, is a platform that combines machine learning…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Azhar Hussain Mozumder , M. John Basha , Chayapathi A. R

IoT environments such as smart homes are susceptible to privacy inference attacks, where attackers can analyze patterns of encrypted network traffic to infer the state of devices and even the activities of people. While most existing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Ronghua Li , Shinan Liu , Haibo Hu , Qingqing Ye , Nick Feamster