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Smartphones are the most commonly used computing platform for accessing sensitive and important information placed on the Internet. Authenticating the smartphone's identity in addition to the user's identity is a widely adopted security augmentation method since conventional user authentication methods, such as password entry, often fail to provide strong protection by itself. In this paper, we propose a sensor-based device fingerprinting technique for identifying and authenticating individual mobile devices. Our technique, called MicPrint, exploits the unique characteristics of embedded microphones in mobile devices due to manufacturing variations in order to uniquely identify each device. Unlike conventional sensor-based device fingerprinting that are prone to spoofing attack via malware, MicPrint is fundamentally spoof-resistant since it uses acoustic features that are prominent only when the user blocks the microphone hole. This simple user intervention acts as implicit permission to fingerprint the sensor and can effectively prevent unauthorized fingerprinting using malware. We implement MicPrint on Google Pixel 1 and Samsung Nexus to evaluate the accuracy of device identification. We also evaluate its security against simple raw data attacks and sophisticated impersonation attacks. The results show that after several incremental training cycles under various environmental noises, MicPrint can achieve high accuracy and reliability for both smartphone models.
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Analysis of head and torso movements for authentication
Wearable computing devices have become increasingly popular and while these devices promise to improve our lives, they come with new challenges. One such device is the Google Glass from which data can be stolen easily as the touch gestures can be intercepted from a head-mounted device. This paper focuses on analyzing and combining two behavioral metrics, namely, head movement (captured through glass) and torso movement (captured through smartphone) to build a continuous authentication system that can be used on Google Glass alone or by pairing it with a smartphone. We performed a correlation analysis among the features on these two metrics and found that very little correlation exists between the features extracted from head and torso movements in most scenarios (set of activities). This led us to combine the two metrics to perform authentication. We built an authentication system using these metrics and compared the performance among different scenarios. We got EER less than 6% when authenticating a user using only the head movements in one scenario whereas the EER is less than 5% when authenticating a user using both head and torso movements in general.
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- Award ID(s):
- 1527795
- PAR ID:
- 10068513
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- IEEE 4th International Conference on Identity, Security, and Behavior Analysis (ISBA)
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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- https://doi.org/10.1109/ISBA.2018.83114
