Visible to the public Entropy based Security Rating Evaluation Scheme for Pattern Lock

TitleEntropy based Security Rating Evaluation Scheme for Pattern Lock
Publication TypeConference Paper
Year of Publication2020
AuthorsDong, Xianzhe, He, Xinyi, Liang, Tianlin, Shi, Dai, Tao, Dan
Conference Name2020 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics - Taiwan (ICCE-Taiwan)
Keywordsauthentication, Entropy, Human Behavior, password, pattern locks, pubcrawl, Resiliency, Scalability, security, smart phones, Sun, visualization
AbstractTo better protect users' privacy, various authentication mechanisms have been applied on smartphones. Android pattern lock has been widely used because it is easy to memorize, however, simple ones are more vulnerable to attack such as shoulder surfing attack. In this paper, we propose a security rating evaluation scheme based on pattern lock. In particular, an entropy function of a pattern lock can be calculated, which is decided by five kinds of attributes: size, length, angle, overlap and intersection for quantitative evaluation of pattern lock. And thus, the security rating thresholds will be determined by the distribution of entropy values. Finally, we design and develop an APP based on Android Studio, which is used to verify the effectiveness of our proposed security rating evaluation scheme.
DOI10.1109/ICCE-Taiwan49838.2020.9258176
Citation Keydong_entropy_2020