Evaluating the effect of tolerance on click-draw based graphical password scheme

Yuxin Meng, Wenjuan Li

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Abstract

To enhance graphical passwords, we have developed a system of click-draw based graphical password scheme (named CD-GPS) that combined current graphical password techniques and evaluated its performance with human users. In real settings, we identify that the effect of tolerance is a key factor affecting the usability of our scheme, however, we have not explored its specific effect in our previous work. In this paper, we therefore conduct a user study to investigate the effect of tolerance on creating and confirming the click-draw based graphical passwords. In particular, we conduct two experiments with totally 60 participants in the user study. The results show that accurate memory and reproduction for the CD-GPS scheme can be significantly reduced when the tolerance is greatly decreased (e.g., 12 x 12 pixels). In the end, we further discuss how to select an appropriate tolerance for the scheme of CD-GPS in real deployment.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationInformation and Communications Security - 14th International Conference, ICICS 2012, Proceedings
Pages349-356
Number of pages8
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2012
Externally publishedYes
Event14th International Conference on Information and Communications Security, ICICS 2012 - Hong Kong, China
Duration: 29 Oct 201231 Oct 2012

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume7618 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference14th International Conference on Information and Communications Security, ICICS 2012
Country/TerritoryChina
CityHong Kong
Period29/10/1231/10/12

Keywords

  • Authentication
  • Click Draw
  • Graphical Password
  • Human Factors
  • Tolerance Evaluation
  • Usable Security

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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