Mobile PassPattern System (MPPS) advanced user authentication system for mobile devices

Author

Kumar, T. Rakesh ; Raghavan, S.V.

Author_Institution

Dept. of CSE, Indian Inst. of Technol. Madras, Chennai

fYear

2008

fDate

24-27 Nov. 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

Mobile handheld devices such as PDAs and cell-phones are here to stay. Users and service providers are slowly and steadily switching to PDAs and cell-phones for electronic commerce transactions. The key factor is security of the information such as password that is used for authentication. Besides, all identification related information follow the first authentication step. We propose a simple, yet elegant method called Mobile PassPattern System (MPPS) to solve the authentication problem in a ubiquitous manner. We have shown that MPPS withstands all known attacks relevant to this mode of authentication.

Keywords

message authentication; mobile computing; Mobile PassPattern System; PDA; cell-phone; electronic commerce transaction; information security; mobile handheld device; user authentication system; Authentication; Biometrics; Cellular phones; Electronic commerce; Handheld computers; Hardware; Information security; Mobile handsets; Personal digital assistants; Telephony; Mobile devices security; Security; User Authentication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Days, 2008. WD '08. 1st IFIP

Conference_Location

Dubai

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2828-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2829-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WD.2008.4812893

Filename

4812893