morzeux / bioseclogger

BiosecLogger

BiosecLogger is a support app created as part of my Bachelor thesis.

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Slovak University of Technology Bratislava
FACULTY OF INFORMATICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES
Degree Course: Informatics
Author: Štefan Šmihla
Bachelor thesis: An Impact of User’s Biometric Characteristics for Authentication in Smartphone Platform
Supervisor: doc. Mgr. Daniela Chudá, PhD.
May 2014

In current time authentication through password is not good enough and research deals with another options, which could be used to increase password protection. Most secure option to authenticate is through protection with some of the user’s biometric characteristics. One of them is keystroke dynamics, which explores uniqueness of writing style and which in compare with other biometric characteristics does not need any additional hardware.

In this work we will deal with usability of different biometric characteristics on smartphone platform. For keystroke dynamics we will design, implement and confirm solution, which will include over standard measurable values another values specific for smartphone platform. Most of them are measurable due to touchscreen and position sensors. Among those values are accelerometer and gyroscope.

The goal of this work is to increase protection of user’s authentication during login, as also to identify external impacts, which might have negative effect for sensitivity of biometrics protection and to find optimal solution to fulfill that goal.

Results of our work has shown that accelerometer and gyroscope are not sensitive enough to authenticate user. However we managed to find and verify a solution with accuracy of authentication over 90%.