A Hybrid Graphical Password Technique for Mobile Data Security Based on Direction

Abstract

Mobile Security has exponentially increased data sensitivitydue to the users upsurge in mobile devices. People are utilizing smartphones as the substitute for desktop or laptop systems, from which they access, download, upload, modify, create, and share their files. Every data has become crucial as and when exposed to other platforms via smartphone. Therefore, all smartphones require security from malicious users. Forthcoming mobile devices will have hybrid graphical passwords as prospects for customer authentication. Users can easily interact with their devices through mixed authentication techniques on mobiles by safely entering the graphical passwords. This paper focuses on Character Set and Direction (CSD) technique developed on the android application for mobiles, which takes a character set and a unique direction as a graphical password for its input method. The significant advantage of the proposed technique is that; it is user-friendly, lightweight, has an extraordinary input/output modality, and has a custom-built mobile application prototype for the Registration and Login Phase. Developed a mobile application for Character set and Direction with four standard directions to construct a unique password scheme and investigate its security, memorability, and graphical user interface. The results are highly encouraging as this technique can be a highly secured authentication technique and high user memorability, and increased usability.