26-03-2014, 02:05 PM
Graphical Password Authentication
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ABSTRACT
The most common computer authentication method to use alphanumerical usernames and password .This method has been shown to have significant drawback. For example, users tends to pick password that can be easily guessed. On the other hand, if a password is hard to guess, then it is often hard to remember.
To address this problem, some researchers have developed authentication methods that use pictures as password. Information Security Personnel are capable describing the problems that can occur because of a hacked password, weak password, or even poor password management could do to a business. These methods include the use of software that logs keystrokes and the “brute force” method. Key logging software records all the keystrokes input from the keyboard and stores it for the hacker to look through and find what could be a password , until the hacker gain access. Therefore, this work will discuss the benefits and ways in which graphical passwords can be used in the business place, to ensure that computer system secure .