Users ID'ed through typing, mouse movements

[J. Tozo]

Very clever, maybe in the future it can be used as second or even third
authentication factor.


On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 1:17 PM, Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> wrote:

>
>
> http://www.scmagazine.com.au/News/365221,users-ided-through-typing-mouse-movements.aspx
>
> Users ID'ed through typing, mouse movements
>
> By Darren Pauli on Nov 22, 2013 2:16 PM
>
> Continuous authentication app created from DARPA research.
>
> Researchers have built a continuous authentication platform that can
> accurately identify users based on their typing patterns.
>
> A series of 90 minute typing tests carried out on 2000 people at Iowa State
> University found users could be identified with a half percent margin of
> error based on the way they hit keys.
>
> The work has been spun into an application that could continuously
> authenticate users and lock accounts if another person jumped on the
> computer
> resulting in irregularities being detected. (pdf)
>
> Uniquely syncopated mouse and keyboard patterns made it possible to
> identify
> users, Iowa State University associate professor Morris Chang said.
>
> “These pauses between words, searches for unusual characters and spellings
> of
> unfamiliar words, all have to do with our past experiences, our learning
> experiences,” Chang said. “And so we call them cognitive fingerprints which
> manifest themselves in typing rhythms.”
>
> “The system can see if the same person or an imposter is coming in to
> hijack
> the computer."
>
> The year-long research run together with electrical engineering students
> Terry Fang, Kuan-Hsing Ho and Danny Shih received a half a million dollar
> grant from the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency which sought to
> discover if continuous authentication was possible.
>
> It was now being extended to capture mouse movements and touch inputs from
> mobile devices with an additional $1.76 million dollars from the agency
> over
> two years.
>
> Copyright © SC Magazine, Australia
>



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