High Security User Authentication Enabled by Piezoelectric Keystroke Dynamics and Machine Learning

Abstract

With the rapid development of electric and information technologies, security issues are becoming a pressing concern. This has given rise to a plethora of authentication techniques, leading among them being the fixed-password method due to its simple mechanism and independence from any specific hardware in the modern smartphone. While fixed-password methods enjoy benefits such as ease of use, potential security issues associated with password leakage cannot be ignored. This article, investigates an alternative strategy based on user keystrokes. Here, the user touch times and force features are extracted from a piezoelectric force touch panel which is an integral part of the hardware. Three broadly adopted machine learning classifiers are used for the collected data set, finally achieving an Equal Error Rate (EER) of 0.720%.