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On mouse dynamics as a behavioral biometric for authentication

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Zach Jorgensen,

Ting YuAuthors Info & Claims

ASIACCS '11: Proceedings of the 6th ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security

Pages 476 - 482

https://doi.org/10.1145/1966913.1966983

Published: 22 March 2011 Publication History

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The idea of using one's behavior with a pointing device, such as a mouse or a touchpad, as a behavioral biometric for authentication purposes has gained increasing attention over the past decade. A number of interesting approaches based on the idea have emerged in the literature and promising experimental results have been reported; however, we argue that limitations in the past experimental evaluations of these approaches raise questions about their true effectiveness in a practical setting. In this paper, we review existing authentication approaches based on mouse dynamics and shed light on some important limitations regarding how the effectiveness of these approaches has been evaluated in the past. We present the results of several experiments that we conducted to illustrate our observations and suggest guidelines for evaluating future authentication approaches based on mouse dynamics. We also discuss a number of avenues for additional research that we believe are necessary to advance the state of the art in this area.

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ASIACCS '11: Proceedings of the 6th ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security

March 2011

527 pages

ISBN:9781450305648

DOI:10.1145/1966913

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The University of Hong Kong, China
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The University of Hong Kong, China
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University of Texas, San Antonio
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Duncan S. Wong
City University of Hong Kong, China

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