VIRTUAL KEY FORCE - A NEW FEATURE FOR KEYSTROKE
D. Shanmugapriya, G. Padmavathi · 2011
Securing the sensitive data and computer systems by allowing ease access to authenticated users and withstanding the attacks of imposters is one of the major challenges in the field of computer security. Traditionally, ID and password are most widely used method for authenticating the computer systems. But, this method has many loop holes such as password sharing, shoulder surfing, brute force attack, dictionary dttack, guessing, phishing and many more. Keystroke Dynamics is one of the famous and inexpensive behavioral biometric technologies, which will try to identify the authenticity of a user when the user is working via a keyboard. There are many features that can be acquired using keystroke a feature. Force of Key type is one of the features which can be obtained using a special force sensitive keyboard which is expensive. The virtual key force is measured without using any special key board which also improves the accuracy when the feature is used for classification.