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A Graphical Password Based System for Small Mobile Devices


Wazir Zada Khan, Mohammed Y Aalsalem and Yang Xiang

Passwords provide security mechanism for authentication and protection services against unwanted access to resources. A graphical based password is one promising alternatives of textual passwords. According to human psychology, humans are able to remember pictures easily. In this paper, we have proposed a new hybrid graphical password based system, which is a combination of recognition and recall based techniques that offers many advantages over the existing systems and may be more convenient for the user. Our scheme is resistant to shoulder surfing attack and many other attacks on graphical passwords. This scheme is proposed for smart mobile devices (like smart phones i.e. ipod, iphone, PDAs etc) which are more handy and convenient to use than traditional desktop computer systems.

Keywords: Graphical passwords, Authentication, Network Security

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ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Wazir Zada Khan
Wazir Zada Khan is currently with School of Computer Science, Jazan University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. He received his MS in Computer Science from Comsats Institute of Information Technology, Pakistan. His research interests include network and system security, sensor networks, wireless and ad hoc networks. His subjects of interest include Sensor Networks, Wireless Networks, Network Security and Digital Image Processing, Computer Vision.

Mohammed Y Aalsalem
Dr. Mohammed Y Aalsalem is currently dean of e-learning and assistant professor at School of Computer Science, Jazan University. Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. He received his PhD in Computer Science from Sydney University. His research interests include real time communication, network security, distributed systems, and wireless systems. In particular, he is currently leading in a research group developing flood warning system using real time sensors. He is Program Committee of the International Conference on Computer Applications in Industry and Engineering, CAINE2011. He is regular reviewer for many international journals such as King Saud University Journal (CCIS-KSU Journal).

Yang Xiang
Dr. Yang Xiang is currently with School of Information Technology, Deakin University. He received his PhD in Computer Science from Deakin University. His research interests include network and system security, distributed systems, and wireless systems. In particular, he is currently leading in a research group developing active defense systems against large-scale distributed network attacks and new Internet security countermeasures. His recent research has been supported by the Australian Research Council (ARC), the University, and industry partners. Dr. Xiang has published more than 100 research papers in international journals and conferences. He has served as Program/General Chair for many international conferences such as ICA3PP 11, IEEE/IFIP EUC 11, TrustCom 11, IEEE HPCC 10/09, IEEE ICPADS 08, NSS 11/10/09/08/07. He has been PC member for many international conferences in distributed systems, networking, and security. He is regular reviewer for many international journals such as IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, IEEE Transactions on Information Security and Forensics, IEEE Communications Letters, and IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications. He is on the editorial board of Journal of Network and Computer Applications.


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