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Eiji UseYourIllusion
Eiji UseYourIllusion
Eiji Hayashi
Nicolas Christin
Rachna Dhamija
Adrian Perrig
Carnegie Mellon CyLab Japan
Key Concept: Distortion
• Passfaces
• Pass Points
• DAS (Draw-A-Secret)
• Déjà vu
Passfaces
• Faces are used as a graphical portfolio
• Preference could be a limitation
Cited from “On User Choice in Graphical Password Schemes”, Darren Daivis et. al, 2004
Pass Points
• Use “a sequence of clicks” as a shared
secret
• There are hot spots
Cited from “Authentication Usin Graphical Passwords: Basic Results”, Susan Wiednbeck et. al, 2004
Most Straightforward Way
• Choose graphical portfolio
from a set of pictures
Graphical Portfolio
• If a user can choose whatever
graphical portfolio…
Memorability
“Use Your Illusion”
1. Allow users to take/choose pictures by
themselves
2. Distort the pictures
3. Assign the distorted pictures as graphical
portfolio
“Use Your Illusion”
1. Allow users to take/choose pictures by
themselves
2. Distort the pictures
Security
3. Assign the Distorted pictures as graphical
token
Memorability
Requirements for Distortion
• One-way
• Discarding precise shapes and colors
• Preserving rough shapes and colors
Oil Painting Filter
• Choose RGB values which appears most
frequently in a neighborhood
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50
40
30
20
10
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0 50 100 150 200 250
Oil Painting Filter
Distortion Level
• If high, difficult to guess
but difficult to memorize
• If low, easy to memorize
but easy to guess
Distortion Level
• Two parameters affect distortion level
– If too high, not usable
Security
– If too low, not secure
Memorability
Low-Fidelity Test
Least distorted
Most distorted
Low-Fidelity Test
Low-Fidelity Test
Low-Fidelity Test
Low-Fidelity Test
Low-Fidelity Test
Low-Fidelity Test
It’s a dog!!
Low-Fidelity Test
Difficult to guess
w/o knowing original
picture
Low-Fidelity Test
Satisfies
requirements
Prototype
• Implemented on Nokia’s cell-phone for
usability test
• Also implemented on the web
Prototype
Demo
Usability Test
Imposed,
Highly-distorted
Self-selected,
Distorted
Self-selected,
Non-distorted
Process of Memorization
• Participants assign meanings to distorted pictures
• Assigning meanings helps memorization
Imposed,
Self-selected, Distorted
Distorted
Self-selected, Non-distorted
Tolerance against Guessing Attack
• Original pictures are vulnerable
Prototype is available on
http://arima.okoze.net/illusion/
Please try it!