Paper Title: A Graphical Password Authentication in a Secure Storage System

Author's name: Riasudheen H, Selvamani K, Jayalakshmi S

In recent trends IT sector are concentrating more to develop a product that provides high-level security to the user. Information security is crucial for protecting all types of data from unauthorized access. So, authentication is an entry point for every hacker who is trying to hack the system and sniff the entire data from the product. To avoid unwanted user access to a system, a strong authentication mechanism is required. Authentication is classified into many types, but the most popular way to authenticate a system is done using the alpha-numerical. Traditional text based authentication is vulnerable to many attack like phishing and social engineering. If the password is too easy and obvious while using an alpha-numeric password authentication mechanism, there is a risk of being vulnerable so an innovative approach has been presented using images for passwords. To overcome the vulnerability in text-based authentication, the proposed method called graphical password authentication, which uses an image and the coordinate of the images can be set as password. This method of authentication is easy and more secure than the text based authentication because human brain is very effective while handling the image. In graphical password authentication is done simply by clicking and dragging on an image rather than memorizing the combination of alphanumeric values. So it can be the best alternative approach to the textual password for authentication into the secure storage system.

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