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The Impact of Image Choices on the Usability and Security of Click Based Graphical Passwords

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Advances in Visual Computing (ISVC 2009)

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Click based graphical password systems, such as PassPoint [1], have received much attention in recent years. In this paper we describe our recent user studies on click based graphical passwords. Results from the user study showed a relationship among usability, security and the image choice for the graphical password. We further conducted an analysis on attacking methods for click based graphical passwords. The study highlights the vulnerability of click based graphical password, and enhances our understanding on the usability and security of graphical passwords. We also discuss a number of techniques to improve the usability and security of click based graphical password.

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  1. Mathematics and Computer Science Department, Webster University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

    Xiaoyuan Suo

  2. Department of Computer Science, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

    Ying Zhu & G. Scott Owen

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno, USA

    George Bebis

  2. NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA

    Richard Boyle

  3. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA

    Bahram Parvin

  4. Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV, USA

    Darko Koracin

  5. Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saitama University, 255 Shimo-Okubo, Sakura-ku, Saitama-shi, 338-8570, 338-8570, Japan

    Yoshinori Kuno

  6. Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, USA

    Junxian Wang

  7. Univ. of Zurich, Department of Informatics, Winterthurerstr. 190, P.O. Box, 8057, Zurich, Switzerland

    Renato Pajarola

  8. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 94550, Livermore, CA, USA

    Peter Lindstrom

  9. University of Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, 53754, Sankt Augustin, Germany

    André Hinkenjann

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    Miguel L. Encarnação

  11. SCI Institute & School of Computing, University of Utah, 84112, Salt Lake City, UT, USA

    Cláudio T. Silva

  12. Desert Research Institute, 89512, Reno, NV, USA

    Daniel Coming

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Suo, X., Zhu, Y., Owen, G.S. (2009). The Impact of Image Choices on the Usability and Security of Click Based Graphical Passwords. In: Bebis, G., et al. Advances in Visual Computing. ISVC 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5876. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10520-3_85

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