- Informing Guessing Attacks on Publicly Performed Secrets
- Project Year:
2017
- REU Student (s):
Laura South | Colorado State University
- Student 1 Institution:
Colorado State University
- Project Mentor:
Janne Lindqvist
- Project Mentor Area:
Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Project Abstract:
Unlike traditional protocols, mobile authentication is frequently performed in a public setting, so a certain amount of information leakage is inevitable. A common attack called "shoulder surfing" takes advantage of this inadvertently leaked information for various harmful purposes. The objective of this project is to determine whether it is possible to obtain enough information from observing the full-body action of a user unlocking a mobile device to improve the guessing attack accuracy rate.
