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Identification of Pressed Keys From Mechanical Vibrations

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Gerson de Souza Faria,

Hae Yong KimAuthors Info & Claims

IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, Volume 8, Issue 7

Pages 1221 - 1229

https://doi.org/10.1109/TIFS.2013.2266775

Published: 01 July 2013 Publication History

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This paper describes an attack that identifies the sequence of keystrokes analyzing mechanical vibrations generated by the act of pressing keys. We use accelerometers as vibration sensors. The apparatus necessary for this attack is inexpensive and can be unobtrusively embedded within the target equipment. We tested the proposed attack on an ATM keypad and a PIN-pad. We achieved the key recognition rates of 98.4% in ATM keypad, 76.7% in PIN-pad resting on a hard surface, and 82.1% in PIN-pad hold in hand.

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July 2013

174 pages

ISSN:1556-6013

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