Sunday, February 22, 2009

Graphical Passwords & Qualitative Spatial Relations

Lin, D., Dunphy, P., Olivier, P., and Yan, J. 2007. Graphical passwords & qualitative spatial relations. In Proceedings of the 3rd Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, July 18 - 20, 2007). SOUPS '07, vol. 229. ACM, New York, NY, 161-162.

Summary

The authors modify the Draw-a-Secret (DAS) scheme where users draw a graphical password in a grid so that the "looking over the shoulder" phenomenon could be reduced. A DAS password is a simple encoding of a drawn stroke using a grid and directions, such as up, right, up.

The extended abstract presents a Qualitative Draw-a-Secret (QDAS) scheme that changes DAS by first assigning a number to each grid. Then, the grid itself varies based on the direction changes of the stroke. The grid changes based on cell height and width.

Discussion

Although this extended abstract wasn't too informative, it did give me some thoughts about how we could use sketch recognition techniques to improve upon drawn passwords.

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