Because more people are using smart phones or tablet devices / Tablets to pay the bills or to complete acquisitions and store personal information, so the need for a strong password has become more important than ever.
Rutgers University has shown that the formation of streamlined forms (free-form gestures) using the fingers of the hand across the screen smartphone or tablet / Tablets can be used to open the smart phones and secure access to applications. This forms compared with passwords written traditional or modern (by linking points) are the least likely of the discovery and re-composition Palmttaflin who spy on the user in order to get the illegal use of these devices.
Are cruise lines constitute the future of a secure password?
Says Jan Lindqvist and one of the supervisors of the project and assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering that all Takhtajh to steal a password to be appointed to the owner Mahh.
Lindqvist is believed that this is the first study to explore the shapes flow (free-form gestures) like a password. Researchers published their findings in June as part of the Proceedings of MobiSys '14, an international conference on mobile computing.
In the development of solution security for this problem, he studied Lindqvist and other researchers from Rutgers University and collaborators from the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, including Ante Aolasverta and the University of Helsinki, the feasibility of using the shapes flow (free-form gestures) in order to use the security and authentication. And with that of the formation of any form available in any size and in any place on the screen, this streamlined shapes (gestures) has excellent portability like a password.
And because users are allowed to configure forms are not on a template, the researchers expected that these forms cruise will increase the complexity of the network with more than connect the dots
Lindqvist says: "You can create any shape, using any number of fingers, and on any size or in any location on the screen." "We have seen that this option in the security protection was missing clearly in the scientific literature, as well as in practice, so we decided to test its potential."
To do this, the researchers used a model for experiments where they asked (63) participants to create forms of their own like a password, has been recognized by the device, and even after the re-trial after 10 days .alachkal have been identified through the recognition system, which was designed by the team.
Showed their analysis of positive results where they can rely on these different shapes like a password safer to put these results in practice, researchers Rutgers have seven students of engineering and computer science are well versed and have experience in dealing with touchscreens, in another attempt of them to steal and imitate these forms Using different parasitism.
But these attempts failed, and did not succeed any person involved in this experiment that reshape these forms again with sufficient accuracy. And that while these tests are only in the early stages, but the idea of this show its strength against attacks illegal.
While that to cope with this new technology is not clear so far, the research team plans to continue to analyze the safety of this new technology in the future.
Author: Khaled Khaled, Egypt
Rutgers University has shown that the formation of streamlined forms (free-form gestures) using the fingers of the hand across the screen smartphone or tablet / Tablets can be used to open the smart phones and secure access to applications. This forms compared with passwords written traditional or modern (by linking points) are the least likely of the discovery and re-composition Palmttaflin who spy on the user in order to get the illegal use of these devices.
Are cruise lines constitute the future of a secure password?
Says Jan Lindqvist and one of the supervisors of the project and assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering that all Takhtajh to steal a password to be appointed to the owner Mahh.
Lindqvist is believed that this is the first study to explore the shapes flow (free-form gestures) like a password. Researchers published their findings in June as part of the Proceedings of MobiSys '14, an international conference on mobile computing.
In the development of solution security for this problem, he studied Lindqvist and other researchers from Rutgers University and collaborators from the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, including Ante Aolasverta and the University of Helsinki, the feasibility of using the shapes flow (free-form gestures) in order to use the security and authentication. And with that of the formation of any form available in any size and in any place on the screen, this streamlined shapes (gestures) has excellent portability like a password.
And because users are allowed to configure forms are not on a template, the researchers expected that these forms cruise will increase the complexity of the network with more than connect the dots
Lindqvist says: "You can create any shape, using any number of fingers, and on any size or in any location on the screen." "We have seen that this option in the security protection was missing clearly in the scientific literature, as well as in practice, so we decided to test its potential."
To do this, the researchers used a model for experiments where they asked (63) participants to create forms of their own like a password, has been recognized by the device, and even after the re-trial after 10 days .alachkal have been identified through the recognition system, which was designed by the team.
Showed their analysis of positive results where they can rely on these different shapes like a password safer to put these results in practice, researchers Rutgers have seven students of engineering and computer science are well versed and have experience in dealing with touchscreens, in another attempt of them to steal and imitate these forms Using different parasitism.
But these attempts failed, and did not succeed any person involved in this experiment that reshape these forms again with sufficient accuracy. And that while these tests are only in the early stages, but the idea of this show its strength against attacks illegal.
While that to cope with this new technology is not clear so far, the research team plans to continue to analyze the safety of this new technology in the future.
Author: Khaled Khaled, Egypt