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Images as graphical password: verification and analysis using non-regular low-density parity check coding

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The use of mobile computing devices like laptops, smartphones, tablets, etc. ease user access to work or connect remotely for performing a number of operations. Also, with the advent of these new technologies and devices, one of the major concerns emerges in the form of security for one’s personal data or information. Passwords are very critical to human safety as he or she could be a victim of unauthorized access, data misuse or even they may face some legal trouble because of unconventional activities. Robust passwords are recommended in this act to avoid various outbreaks. But, these passwords are not easy to remember in most of the cases. Therefore, an effort has been made in this paper to present a new graphical password-based method that verifies a user’s authenticity by using images as a password. In this regard, a two-way password verification system is adopted using non-regular low-density parity-check codes and an encryption methodology. The performance of the proposed work was evaluated for three different cases i.e. (a) To validate image for about thirteen of modifications (b) To validate image for different format conversion, and (c) Similarity measures for different face images taken from labeled faces in the wild (LFW) database. Results validated the performance of the proposed method when compared with other state-of-the-art approaches.

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  1. School of Mathematics, Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, Katra, 182320, India

    Uday Pratap Singh

  2. School of Computer Science and Engineering, Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, Katra, 182320, India

    Siddharth Singh Chouhan

  3. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Information Technology Design and Management, Jabalpur, 482005, India

    Sanjeev Jain

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Singh, U.P., Chouhan, S.S. & Jain, S. Images as graphical password: verification and analysis using non-regular low-density parity check coding. Int. j. inf. tecnol. (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41870-020-00477-x

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