Some Remarks on Keystroke Dynamics - Global Surveillance, Retrieving Information and Simple Countermeasures

Marek Klonowski, Piotr Syga, Wojciech Wodo

2012

Abstract

In this paper we discuss some security issues related to keystroke dynamics. Up to now these methods have been used mainly for supporting authentication protocols. We point out that they can be also used against privacy and potentially lead to some other malicious behavior like for example impersonation. We also present some simple fairly realistic and usable countermeasures. We discuss fundamental issues about efficient and accurate representation of user’s profile in keystroke dynamic methods. More precisely, we discuss statistics of so–called timings used for building user’s profile. We give some observations about distributions of timings that substantially differ from assumptions used in numerous papers. Some of our theories are supported by experimental results.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Klonowski M., Syga P. and Wodo W. (2012). Some Remarks on Keystroke Dynamics - Global Surveillance, Retrieving Information and Simple Countermeasures . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Security and Cryptography - Volume 1: SECRYPT, (ICETE 2012) ISBN 978-989-8565-24-2, pages 296-301. DOI: 10.5220/0004072602960301

in Bibtex Style

@conference{secrypt12,
author={Marek Klonowski and Piotr Syga and Wojciech Wodo},
title={Some Remarks on Keystroke Dynamics - Global Surveillance, Retrieving Information and Simple Countermeasures},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Security and Cryptography - Volume 1: SECRYPT, (ICETE 2012)},
year={2012},
pages={296-301},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004072602960301},
isbn={978-989-8565-24-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Security and Cryptography - Volume 1: SECRYPT, (ICETE 2012)
TI - Some Remarks on Keystroke Dynamics - Global Surveillance, Retrieving Information and Simple Countermeasures
SN - 978-989-8565-24-2
AU - Klonowski M.
AU - Syga P.
AU - Wodo W.
PY - 2012
SP - 296
EP - 301
DO - 10.5220/0004072602960301