SIGNATURE AUTHENTICATION FOR SMART PHONE

ABSTRACT

In this age of technology, authentication has become a burning issue. Demand for new ways to
authenticate people are increasing everyday. The technological boom in mobile industry has also
opened new playing fields. Here we propose a new authentication model for mobile platforms
especially for android devices.

EXISTING SYSTEM
Existing lock systems are based on pattern. Simple locks are easy to break. User need to create
long pattern for better security.

PROPOSED SYSETM
Main functional Modules are

Data Processing:
Drawing signature on mobile screen
Feature extraction
Signature string generation from features

Storage:
Saving signature string samples

SQLite db

Authentication
Feature extraction and matching algorithm:
To generate string from signatures, we needed to fashion algorithms of our own which
could take the raw signature data and produced a string. We then used approximate string
matching algorithms to calculate the similarity.
The phone is unlocked only when the similarity is above a threshold value. Eg( 90%
similarity).

Authentication Log manager

This module keeps track successful as well as failed logins.
User is not allowed to login if three or four consecutive login attempts results
in failure.
Password Reset
The password reset option is allowed using the registered email id. A user can
unlock the phone if somebody attempts to login and fails three times.

TOOLS / PLATFORM, HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE REQUIREMENT

Hardware and software requirements for the installation and smooth functioning of this
project could be configured based on the requirements needed by the component of the operating
environment that works as front-end system here we suggest minimum configuration for the both
hardware and software components.

Working off with this software is requirements concrete on system environments. It

includes two phases

Hardware requirements
Software requirements

HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS

o MEMORY :1 GB RAM(MINIMUM)
o PHONE VERSION : Android 2.2 above

SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS

OPERATING SYSTEM :ANDROID

 FRONT END :ANDROID, XML
BACK END :SQLite
SOFTWARES USED : Android SDK,ADT Plugin,Eclipse