Abstract: For authentication users mainly use PIN entry mechanism. Due to its usability and security aspects this scheme is popular. But one of the drawbacks of this scheme is that it suffers from shoulder surfing attack. An unauthorized user can fully or partially observe the login session in this attack. To get the actual PIN the attacker can record the activities of the login session and can use it later. In this paper,we propose an authentication method, known as Color Combo to resist the shoulder surfing attack so that user don’t have to disclose the actual pin all he/she has to enter is the session pin. This scheme is based on a partially observable model. This scheme is user friendly and takes only less time to complete.
General Terms: Authentication, shoulder surfing attacks, session pin.
Keywords: Feature table, color pins, partially observer model, one time paradigm.
Title: Color Combo: An Authentication Method against Shoulder Surfing Attack
Author: GOPIKA ANIL, CHIPPY MARY JOHN, PRADEEP P MATHEW
International Journal of Computer Science and Information Technology Research
ISSN 2348-1196 (print), ISSN 2348-120X (online)
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