A SECURE EMAIL ACCOUNT AUTHENTICATION USING AN

GRAPHICAL PASWORD

User authentication is one of the important topics in information security. Traditional strong
password schemes could provide with certain degree of security; however, the fact that strong
passwords being difficult to memorize often leads their owners to write them down on papers or
even save them in a computer file. As a result, security becomes greatly compromised. On the
other hand, knowing that human beings are predominant visual creatures, many researchers have
investigated or developed graphical password schemes recently. In this paper, we propose a
graphical password scheme for user authentication using images with random tracks of
geometric shapes. Our method not only is more secure than most of the existing graphical
password schemes, it also solves problems like requiring a large image database, uneasy to
repeat mouse clicking at the same position, as well as images being too simple to cause collisions
on points selected for different users.

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