Profile Generation Methods for Reinforcing Robustness of Keystroke Authentication in Free Text Typing

Yoshitomo Matsubara; Toshiharu Samura; Haruhiko Nishimura

doi:10.4236/jis.2015.62014

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Profile Generation Methods for Reinforcing Robustness of Keystroke Authentication in Free Text Typing

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Yoshitomo Matsubara¹, Toshiharu Samura², Haruhiko Nishimura^1*

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¹Graduate School of Applied Informatics, University of Hyogo, Kobe, Japan.
²Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Akashi College, Akashi, Japan.

ABSTRACT

We have investigated several characteristics of the keystroke authentication in Japanese free text typing, and our methods have provided high recognition accuracy for high typing skill users who can type 700 or more letters per 5 minutes. There are, however, some situations decreasing the accuracy such as long period passage after registering each user’s profile documents and existence of lower typing skill users who can type only about 500 - 600 letters per 5 minutes. In this paper, we propose new profile generation methods, profile-updating and profile-combining methods, to reinforce the robustness of keystroke authentication and show the effectiveness of them through three examinations with experimental data.

KEYWORDS

Keystroke Authentication, Biometrics, Information Security, Profile Generation, Robustness

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The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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Matsubara, Y. , Samura, T. and Nishimura, H. (2015) Profile Generation Methods for Reinforcing Robustness of Keystroke Authentication in Free Text Typing. Journal of Information Security, 6, 131-141. doi: 10.4236/jis.2015.62014.

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