Author : Milouni Dattani, Vaibhavi Kamani,Raveena Pandya, Heta Mehta, Arjun Jaiswal and Mitchell D’silva

With the rapid use of computers, the security of passwords is must where privacy is important. For password protection various techniques are available. The main issues of knowledge based authentication, usually text based passwords, are well known. Users tend to choose passwords they can easily remember and hence can also be guessed by the hacker. To avoid the limitation of textual passwords, this paper focuses on the implementation of a Graphical Password Authentication System using cued click points based on the integrated evaluation of the cued click points. Click cued points (CCP) is a click-based graphical password scheme. Users click on one point per image for a sequence of images. The next image is based on the previous click-point. Users prefer CCP over Passpoints because selecting and remembering only one point per image is less secure, than having each image being triggered by the user’s memory as to where the corresponding point was located. CCP also provides greater security than PassPoints because the number of images increases the workload for attackers.

Keywords: Graphical Passwords, Computer Security, Authentication, Usable Security, User Study.

Article published in International Journal of Current Engineering and Technology, Vol.4, No.6 (Dec-2014)