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SnapAuth: A Gesture-Based Unobtrusive Smartwatch User Authentication Scheme

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Emerging Technologies for Authorization and Authentication (ETAA 2018)

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In this paper, we present a novel motion-based behavioral biometric-based user authentication solution - SnapAuth, for Android-based smartwatch. SnapAuth requires the user to perform finger-snapping (Snapping (or clicking) one’s fingers is the act of creating a snapping or clicking sound with one’s fingers. Primarily this is done by building tension between the thumb and another (middle, index, or ring) finger and then moving the other finger forcefully downward so it hits the palm of the same hand at a high speed [4].) action, while wearing the smartwatch to perform the authentication. SnapAuth profiles the arm-movements by collecting data from smartwatch’s built-in accelerometer and gyroscope sensors, while the user performs this action. We implemented and evaluated SnapAuth on Motorola Moto 3G smartwatch. SnapAuth could be widely accepted by users as it utilizes the users’ familiarity with the very common finger-snapping action and users do not need to remember any secret.

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    https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/sensors/sensors_overview.html.

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    http://weka.sourceforge.net/doc.packages/oneClassClassifier/weka/classifiers/meta/OneClassClassifier.html.

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  1. Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science (DISI), University of Trento, Trento, Italy

    Attaullah Buriro, Bruno Crispo & Sandeep Gupta

  2. Department of Information Security, Khwaja Fareed University of Engineering and Information Technology, Rahim Yar Khan, Pakistan

    Attaullah Buriro & Athar Mahboob

  3. Department of Computer Science, DistriNET, KU Lueven, Leuven, Belgium

    Bruno Crispo

  4. Create-NET, Foundazione Bruno Kessler (FBK), Trento, Italy

    Mojtaba Eskandri

  5. Swift via Exellys, Hamont-Achel Hamont, Flanders, Belgium

    Rutger Van Acker

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Buriro, A., Crispo, B., Eskandri, M., Gupta, S., Mahboob, A., Van Acker, R. (2018). SnapAuth: A Gesture-Based Unobtrusive Smartwatch User Authentication Scheme. In: Saracino, A., Mori, P. (eds) Emerging Technologies for Authorization and Authentication. ETAA 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11263. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04372-8_3

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