A behavioral authentication method for mobile gesture against resilient user posture

Abstract

The password pattern has become a widely used mobile authentication method. However, there are still some potential security problems since the passwords are easy to be cracked by some malicious software. An important research direction of improving its security is adding behavior pattern into the password pattern. The existing methods mainly used user's gesture behavior data such as the location, pressure and contact area of finger collected by touch screen to build a behavior authentication model, which did not consider the influence of user's posture on user's gesture behavior. This paper aims to propose a gesture authentication construction method that is resilient against the change of user's posture. Firstly, for the posture behavior data collected by mobile's orientation sensor and acceleration sensor, we use K-means algorithm to get user's postures. Secondly, we train a gesture authentication sub-model for each posture based on the data collected by touch screen. Finally, we give a behavior authentication method based on these models. Our experimental result shows that the method achieves an effect of 4.36% False Acceptance Rate (FAR) and 5.03% False Rejection Rate (FRR).