Title
SmartPass: a smarter geolocation‐based authentication scheme
Abstract
This paper describes an improved authentication method for mobile devices compared with commonly used authentication using characters (text passwords) and Personal Identification Number (PINs). The method introduced in this paper was developed to overcome the difficulty of remembering unfamiliar secrets such as a complex sequence of text characters while maintaining authentication strength. We introduce a new authentication approach, SmartPass, that works for both legacy systems and mobile devices. SmartPass is a web-based mobile interface that provides a method to use visual map location secrets, which are theorized to be easier to remember and use than passwords and remain difficult for an adversary to guess. We evaluate the security strength of such a map-based secret compared with traditional text password, PIN, and pattern secrets. This paper also seeks to evaluate user feedback as to the usability and memorability of this authentication method. Copyright (C) 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1002/sec.1311
SECURITY AND COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
Keywords
Field
DocType
authentication,graphical passwords,map-based passwords,smartphone,security
Lightweight Extensible Authentication Protocol,Chip Authentication Program,Computer science,Challenge–response authentication,Computer security,Password policy,Authentication protocol,Password,Multi-factor authentication,Cognitive password
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
8
18
1939-0114
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
7
0.45
14
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jiyoung Shin170.45
S. Kancharlapalli270.45
Michael Farcasin381.14
Eric Chan-Tin422915.79