Biometric Authentication Through a Virtual Keyboard for Smartphones

Security through biometric keystroke authentication on mobile phones with a capacitive display and aQWERTZ-layout is a new approach. Keystroke on mobile phones with a 12-key layout has already shownthe possibility for authentication on these devices. But with hardware changes, new general requirementshave been arisen.In this paper, we focus on the authentication with keystroke dynamics. Therefore, we are presenting newimplemented keyboard layouts to show differences between a 12-key layout and a QWERTZ-layout. Inaddition, we compare a numerical (PIN) and alphabetic (password) input for mobile phones. For this, weadded new features for a keystroke authentication with a capacitive display. With the knowledge of the faultrates, we discuss the improvement of the security for keystroke dynamics with different virtual keyboardlayouts. Our results show, even with new hardware factors, that an authentication via keystroke dynamicsis possible.