| Title | Killing the password, part 1: An exploratory analysis of walking signatures |
| Publication Type | Conference Paper |
| Year of Publication | 2017 |
| Authors | Hutton, W. J., Dang, Z., Cui, C. |
| Conference Name | 2017 Computing Conference |
| Keywords | authentication, Global Positioning System, Human Behavior, Identity management, identity management systems, Legged locomotion, Meteorology, mobile applications, Network security, pubcrawl, Resiliency, Scalability, Sensors, Statistical Learning |
| Abstract | For over 50 years, the password has been a frequently used, yet relatively ineffective security mechanism for user authentication. The ubiquitous smartphone is a compact suite of sensors, computation, and network connectivity that corporations are beginning to embrace under BYOD (bring your own device). In this paper, we hypothesize that each of us has a unique "walking signature" that a smartphone can recognize and use to provide passive, continuous authentication. This paper describes the exploratory data analysis of a small, cross-sectional, empirical study of users' walking signatures as observed by a smartphone. We then describe an identity management system that could use a walking signature as a means to passively and continuously authenticate a user and manage complex passwords to improve security. |
| DOI | 10.1109/SAI.2017.8252188 |
| Citation Key | hutton_killing_2017 |
Killing the password, part 1: An exploratory analysis of walking signatures