Publication Type

Journal Article

Version

acceptedVersion

Publication Date

7-2020

Abstract

With the boom of Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) applications, head-mounted smart wearable glass devices are becoming popular to help users access various services like E-mail freely. However, most existing password entry schemes on smart glasses rely on additional computers or mobile devices connected to smart glasses, which require users to switch between different systems and devices. This may greatly lower the practicability and usability of smart glasses. In this paper, we focus on this challenge and design three practical anti-eavesdropping password entry schemes on stand-alone smart glasses, named gTapper, gRotator and gTalker. The main idea is to break the correlation between the underlying password and the interaction observable to adversaries. In our IRB-approved user study, these schemes are found to be easy-to-use without additional hardware under various test conditions, where the participants can enter their passwords within moderate time, at high accuracy, and in various situations.

Keywords

Password, Smart glasses, Eavesdropping, Usability, Authentication, Password entry, anti-eavesdropping, head-mounted device, usability and security

Discipline

Information Security

Research Areas

Cybersecurity

Publication

IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security

Volume

16

First Page

307

Last Page

321

ISSN

1556-6013

Identifier

10.1109/TIFS.2020.3013212

Publisher

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Copyright Owner and License

Authors

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1109/TIFS.2020.3013212

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