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Communications of the ACM archive
Volume 33 , Issue 2 (February 1990) table of contents

Pages: 168 - 176

Year of Publication: 1990

ISSN:0001-0782

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Rick Joyce	AT&T Bell Labs, Middletown, NJ
Gopal Gupta	James Cook Univ., Townsville, Australia

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

The variables that help make a handwritten signature a unique human identifier also provide a unique digital signature in the form of a stream of latency periods between keystrokes. This article describes a method of verifying the identity of a user based on such a digital signature, and reports results from trial usage of the system.

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CITED BY 22

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	Francesco Bergadano , Daniele Gunetti , Claudia Picardi, User authentication through keystroke dynamics, ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC), v.5 n.4, p.367-397, November 2002
	Fabian Monrose , Michael K. Reiter , Susanne Wetzel, Password hardening based on keystroke dynamics, Proceedings of the 6th ACM conference on Computer and communications security, p.73-82, November 01-04, 1999, Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore
	M. S. Obaidat, A verification methodology for computer systems users, Proceedings of the 1995 ACM symposium on Applied computing, p.258-262, February 26-28, 1995, Nashville, Tennessee, United States
	Andrew S. Patrick , A. Chris Long , Scott Flinn, HCI and security systems, CHI '03 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems, April 05-10, 2003, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA
	Daniel Guinier, Identification by biometrics, ACM SIGSAC Review, v.8 n.2, p.1-11, Summer 1990
	Alen Peacock , Xian Ke , Matthew Wilkerson, Typing Patterns: A Key to User Identification, IEEE Security and Privacy, v.2 n.5, p.40-47, September 2004
	Richard C. Thomas , Amela Karahasanovic , Gregor E. Kennedy, An investigation into keystroke latency metrics as an indicator of programming performance, Proceedings of the 7th Australasian conference on Computing education, p.127-134, January 01, 2005, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia
	Daniele Gunetti , Claudia Picardi, Keystroke analysis of free text, ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC), v.8 n.3, p.312-347, August 2005
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	I-En Liao , Cheng-Chi Lee , Min-Shiang Hwang, A password authentication scheme over insecure networks, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, v.72 n.4, p.727-740, June 2006
	F. Bergadano , D. Gunetti , C. Picardi, Identity verification through dynamic keystroke analysis, Intelligent Data Analysis, v.7 n.5, p.469-496, October 2003
	Dawn Xiaodong Song , David Wagner , Xuqing Tian, Timing analysis of keystrokes and timing attacks on SSH, Proceedings of the 10th conference on USENIX Security Symposium, p.25-25, August 13-17, 2001, Washington, D.C.
	Ozlem Guven , Selim Akyokus , Mitat Uysal , Aykut Guven, Enhanced password authentication through keystroke typing characteristics, Proceedings of the 25th conference on Proceedings of the 25th IASTED International Multi-Conference: artificial intelligence and applications, p.317-322, February 12-14, 2007, Innsbruck, Austria
	Dawn Xiaodong Song , David Wagner , Xuqing Tian, Timing analysis of keystrokes and timing attacks on SSH, Proceedings of the 10th conference on USENIX Security Symposium, p.25-25, August 13-17, 2001, Washington, D.C.
	Jae-Wook Lee , Sung-Soon Choi , Byung-Ro Moon, An evolutionary keystroke authentication based on ellipsoidal hypothesis space, Proceedings of the 9th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation, July 07-11, 2007, London, England
	Angela Lammers , Sharon Langenfeld, Identity Authentication Based on Keystroke Latencies Using Neural Networks, Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, v.6 n.5, p.48-51, May 1991
	Kuan-Ta Chen , Li-Wen Hong, User identification based on game-play activity patterns, Proceedings of the 6th ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Network and system support for games, p.7-12, September 19-20, 2007, Melbourne, Australia
	Kenneth Revett , Florin Gorunescu , Marina Gorunescu , Marius Ene , Sergio Tenreiro de Magalhaes , Henrique M. Dinis Santos, A machine learning approach to keystroke dynamics based user authentication, International Journal of Electronic Security and Digital Forensics, v.1 n.1, p.55-70, May 2007
	Ugo Galassi , Marco Botta , Attilio Giordana, Hierarchical Hidden Markov Models for User/Process Profile Learning, Fundamenta Informaticae, v.78 n.4, p.487-505, December 2007
	Ahmed Awad E. Ahmed , Issa Traore, A New Biometric Technology Based on Mouse Dynamics, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, v.4 n.3, p.165-179, July 2007
	Ken Iwasaki , Takashi Miyaki , Jun Rekimoto, Expressive typing: a new way to sense typing pressure and its applications, Proceedings of the 27th international conference extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems, April 04-09, 2009, Boston, MA, USA

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
K. Computing Milieux
K.6 MANAGEMENT OF COMPUTING AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS
K.6.m Miscellaneous
Subjects: Security*

General Terms:
Experimentation, Security

REVIEW

"Stanley A. Kurzban : Reviewer"

The authors present a thorough and useful description of their work on the use of keystroke latencies (the intervals between successive keystrokes) to authenticate the identity of a computer user. Their approach requires each user more...

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Rick Joyce: colleagues

Gopal Gupta: colleagues

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