An evolutionary keystroke authentication based on ellipsoidal hypothesis space

  • Authors:
  • Jae-Wook Lee;Sung-Soon Choi;Byung-Ro Moon

  • Affiliations:
  • Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea;Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea;Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 9th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Keystroke authentication is a biometric method utilizing the typing characteristics of users. In this paper, we propose an evolutionary method for stable keystroke authentication. In the method, typing characteristics of users are represented by n-dimensional vectors and an ellipsoidal hypothesis space, which distinguishes a collection of the timing vectors of a user from those of the others, is evolved by a genetic algorithm. A filtering scheme and an adaptation mechanism are also presented to improve the stability and effectiveness of the proposed method. Empirical results show that the error rates of our method for authentication are reasonably small.