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A Comprehensive Review of Keystroke Dynamics-Based Authentication Mechanism

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Abstract

Keystroke dynamics, also called keystroke biometrics or typing dynamics, is a biometric-based on typing style. Typists have unique typing patterns that can be analyzed to confirm the authenticity of the user. Keystroke dynamics is most often applied in situations where the authenticity of a user must be ascertained with extreme confidence. It could be used as an additional degree of security for password-protected applications. If user’s password is compromised, and the keystroke dynamics of the real user is known, the application may be able to reject the impostor despite having received valid credentials. Different types of keyboards and remote access are major problems of keystroke dynamics authentication technique. In this paper, a comprehensive analysis of contemporary work on keystroke dynamic authentication mechanisms is summarized to analyze the effectiveness of various methodologies in present. Also, various statistical-based and machine learning-based algorithms are analyzed with their strengths and weaknesses. From this survey, it was observed that there is a need to strengthen the keystroke dynamics dataset which has all essential features. Also an efficient algorithm is required to obtain high accuracy to make authentication effective, as the performance of biometric keystroke authentication is still an open research.

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  1. Sardar Patel Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India

    Nataasha Raul & Radha Shankarmani

  2. C-DAC, Mumbai, India

    Padmaja Joshi

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  1. Computer Science and Engineering, Maharaja Agrasen Institute of Technology, Delhi, India

    Ashish Khanna

  2. Computer Science and Engineering, Maharaja Agrasen Institute of Technology, Delhi, India

    Deepak Gupta

  3. Department of Information Technology, RCC Institute of Information Technology, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

    Siddhartha Bhattacharyya

  4. Department of Computer Science, VŠB - Technical University of Ostrava, Ostrava-Poruba, Czech Republic

    Vaclav Snasel

  5. Department of Computer Science, VŠB - Technical University of Ostrava, Ostrava-Poruba, Czech Republic

    Jan Platos

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Raul, N., Shankarmani, R., Joshi, P. (2020). A Comprehensive Review of Keystroke Dynamics-Based Authentication Mechanism. In: Khanna, A., Gupta, D., Bhattacharyya, S., Snasel, V., Platos, J., Hassanien, A. (eds) International Conference on Innovative Computing and Communications. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1059. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0324-5_13

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