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EyeSec: A practical shoulder-surfing resistant gaze-based authentication system

  • Na Li
  • , Qianhong Wu*
  • , Jingwen Liu
  • , Wei Hu
  • , Bo Qin
  • , Wei Wu
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Beihang University
  • Ltd.
  • Renmin University of China
  • Fujian Normal University

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Abstract

With ubiquitous use of electronic devices where personal information is often stored, secure authentication is greatly underscored. As conventional password entry approaches are vulnerable to shoulder-surfing, gaze-based authentication approaches have been developed, but most of them require extra eye trackers which usually rely on special hardware and are too expensive for ordinary people. Aimed at both shoulder-surfing resistance and practicality, we present EyeSec, a gaze-based authentication system which exploits state-of-art gaze tracking technology without requirement for additional hardware except for a webcam. EyeSec offers three kinds of authentications, i.e., gaze-based PIN, gaze-based pattern and gaze-based captcha. According to the results of experiment, the best-performing participants, aged between 21 and 35, achieve average 76.2 %, 90.0 %, 100.0 % success rate for passing the three kinds of authentications, respectively, which makes gaze-based authentication from theory to practice.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationInformation Security Practice and Experience - 13th International Conference, ISPEC 2017, Proceedings
EditorsJoseph K. Liu, Pierangela Samarati
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages435-453
Number of pages19
ISBN (Print)9783319723587
DOIs
StatePublished - 2017
Event13th International Conference on Information Security Practice and Experience, ISPEC 2017 - Melbourne, Australia
Duration: 13 Dec 201715 Dec 2017

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume10701 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference13th International Conference on Information Security Practice and Experience, ISPEC 2017
Country/TerritoryAustralia
CityMelbourne
Period13/12/1715/12/17

Keywords

  • Gaze tracking
  • Gaze-based authentication
  • Gaze-based captcha
  • Shoulder-surfing
  • Usable security

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