Title
The effect of baroque music on the PassPoints graphical password
Abstract
Graphical passwords have been demonstrated to be the possible alternatives to traditional alphanumeric passwords. However, they still tend to follow predictable patterns that are easier to attack. The crux of the problem is users' memory limitations. Users are the weakest link in password authentication mechanism. It shows that baroque music has positive effects on human memorizing and learning. We introduce baroque music to the PassPoints graphical password scheme and conduct a laboratory study in this paper. Results shown that there is no statistic difference between the music group and the control group without music in short-term recall experiments, both had high recall success rates. But in long-term recall, the music group performed significantly better. We also found that the music group tended to set significantly more complicated passwords, which are usually more resistant to dictionary and other guess attacks. But compared with the control group, the music group took more time to log in both in short-term and long-term tests. Besides, it appears that background music does not work in terms of hotspots.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1145/1816041.1816063
Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval
Keywords
DocType
Volume
high recall success rate,background music,music group,baroque music,graphical password,control group,complicated password,short-term recall experiment,long-term recall,passpoints graphical password scheme
Journal
abs/1306.3054
Issue
Citations 
PageRank 
null
1
0.39
References 
Authors
17
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Haichang Gao117217.41
Zhongjie Ren2222.49
Xiuling Chang3283.02
Xiyang Liu415918.55
Uwe Aickelin51679153.63