Gesture and Touch Screen based password for more secure authentication with wireless communication

Abstract: User authentication is a fundamental component in network communication. There are various types of authentication systems such as textual passwords, smart cards or tokens, biometric authentication etc. But the current authentication systems suffer from many weaknesses. This paper presents a multifactor authentication scheme. Here we are having two levels of security. In the first security level the user have to provide a gesture after wearing a 3D glove unit. The second level of security consists of a touch screen for drawing the pattern. The communication between these two levels is wireless, using Zigbee technology. The security analysis of this method shows that this scheme is sustainable to the vulnerability attacks during authentication process.

Keywords: authentication scheme, textual password, shoulder surfing