Enhanced Password Authentication through Fuzzy Logic

  • Authors:
  • Willem G. de Ru;Jan H. P. Eloff

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Expert: Intelligent Systems and Their Applications
  • Year:
  • 1997

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Abstract

This article presents a methodology for the reinforcement of password authentication through typing biometrical mechanisms. Typing biometrics is the analysis of the keystroke patterns unique to each user. This analysis is transparent-indiscernible to users-while they are trying to gain system access via a password-authentication mechanism in the normal way (by entering a user ID and password string). The analysis employs fuzzy logic, which has great potential to categorize each user's typing patterns. The integration of fuzzy logic-based typing biometrics with current password mechanisms, which constitute the most universal authentication device, can greatly enhance security.