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Continuous Authentication (CA) using behavioural biometrics is a type of biometric identification that recognizes individuals based on their unique behavioural characteristics, like their typing style. However, the existing systems that use…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Dilshan Senerath , Sanuja Tharinda , Maduka Vishwajith , Sanka Rasnayaka , Sandareka Wickramanayake , Dulani Meedeniya

This paper proposes a portable hardware token for user authentication, it is based on the use of keystroke dynamics to verify users in a bio-metric manner. The proposed approach allows for a multifactor authentication scheme in which users…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-09-25 Robert Cockell , Basel Halak

User authentication is essential to ensure secure access to computer systems, yet traditional methods face limitations in usability, cost, and security. Mouse dynamics authentication, based on the analysis of users' natural interaction…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Yi Wang , Chengyv Wu , Yang Liao , Maowei You

In recent years the amount of secure information being stored on mobile devices has grown exponentially. However, current security schemas for mobile devices such as physiological biometrics and passwords are not secure enough to protect…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-24 Rushit Dave , Naeem Seliya , Laura Pryor , Mounika Vanamala , Evelyn Sowells , Jacob mallet

Lifelogging has become a prominent research topic in recent years. Wearable sensors like Fitbits and smart watches are now increasingly popular for recording ones activities. Some researchers are also exploring keystroke dynamics for…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-11-18 Srijith Unni , Sushma Suryanarayana Gowda , Alan F. Smeaton

Cyber attacks has always been of a great concern. Websites and services with poor security layers are the most vulnerable to such cyber attacks. The attackers can easily access sensitive data like credit card details and social security…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Soumyatattwa Kar , Abhishek Bamotra , Bhavya Duvvuri , Radhika Mohanan

The field of behavioural biometrics stands as an appealing alternative to more traditional biometric systems due to the ease of use from a user perspective and potential robustness to presentation attacks. This paper focuses its attention…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-20 Parker Lamb , Alexander Millar , Ramon Fuentes

The amount of secure data being stored on mobile devices has grown immensely in recent years. However, the security measures protecting this data have stayed static, with few improvements being done to the vulnerabilities of current…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Laura Pryor , Jacob Mallet , Rushit Dave , Naeem Seliya , Mounika Vanamala , Evelyn Sowells Boone

In this research, we consider the problem of verifying user identity based on keystroke dynamics obtained from free-text. We employ a novel feature engineering method that generates image-like transition matrices. For this image-like…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-16 Jianwei Li , Han-Chih Chang , Mark Stamp

Keystroke timing based active authentication systems are conceptually attractive because: (i) they use the keyboard as the sensor and are not hardware-cost prohibitive, and (ii) they use the keystrokes generated from normal usage of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Md Enamul Karim , Kiran S. Balagani , Aaron Elliott , David Irakiza , Mike O'Neal , Vir Phoha

Continuous authentication systems leveraging free-text keyboard dynamics offer a promising additional layer of security in a multifactor authentication setup that can be used in a transparent way with no impact on user experience. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Roberto Dillon , Arushi

Authentication based on keystroke dynamics is a convenient biometric approach, easy in use, transparent, and cheap as it does not require a dedicated sensor. Keystroke authentication, as part of multi factor authentication, can be used in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Ievgeniia Kuzminykh , Bogdan Ghita , Alexandr Silonosov

In this paper we present the case for including keystroke dynamics in lifelogging. We describe how we have used a simple keystroke logging application called Loggerman, to create a dataset of longitudinal keystroke timing data spanning a…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Alan F. Smeaton , Naveen Garaga Krishnamurthy , Amruth Hebbasuru Suryanarayana

Emerging technology demands reliable authentication mechanisms, particularly in interconnected systems. Current systems rely on a single moment of authentication, however continuous authentication systems assess a users identity utilizing a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-03-11 Rasana Manandhar , Shaya Wolf , Mike Borowczak

In contemporary mobile user authentication systems, verifying user legitimacy has become paramount due to the widespread use of smartphones. Although fingerprint and facial recognition are widely used for mobile authentication, PIN-based…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Yooshin Kim , Namhyeok Kwon , Donghoon Shin

With the widespread of digital environments, reliable authentication and continuous access control has become crucial. It can minimize cyber attacks and prevent frauds, specially those associated with identity theft. A particular interest…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Matheus Simão , Fabiano Prado , Omar Abdul Wahab , Anderson Avila

The broad usage of mobile devices nowadays, the sensitiveness of the information contained in them, and the shortcomings of current mobile user authentication methods are calling for novel, secure, and unobtrusive solutions to verify the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Giuseppe Stragapede , Paula Delgado-Santos , Ruben Tolosana , Ruben Vera-Rodriguez , Richard Guest , Aythami Morales

Analyzing keystroke dynamics (KD) for biometric verification has several advantages: it is among the most discriminative behavioral traits; keyboards are among the most common human-computer interfaces, being the primary means for users to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Giuseppe Stragapede , Ruben Vera-Rodriguez , Ruben Tolosana , Aythami Morales , Naser Damer , Julian Fierrez , Javier Ortega-Garcia

The Keystroke Biometrics Ongoing Competition (KBOC) presented an anomaly detection challenge with a public keystroke dataset containing a large number of subjects and real-world aspects. Over 300 subjects typed case-insensitive repetitions…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-01-20 John V. Monaco

Recent proposals advocate using keystroke timing signals, specifically the coefficient of variation ($\delta$) of inter-keystroke intervals, to distinguish human-composed text from AI-generated content. We demonstrate that this class of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-27 David Condrey