Practicality of accelerometer side channels on smartphones

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 41-50

  Aviv, Adam J ^a   Sapp, Benjamin ^a   Blaze, Matt ^a   Smith, Jonathan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Accelerometer; Side channels; Smartphone security

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETER SENSOR; GRAPHICAL PASSWORD; HIGH BANDWIDTH; POLYNOMIAL FITTINGS; PREDICTION MODEL; SAMPLE RATE; SIDE-CHANNEL; TEST SETS; USER INPUT;

ACCELEROMETERS; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); SECURITY OF DATA; SECURITY SYSTEMS; SENSORS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SMARTPHONES;

WALKING AIDS;

EID: 84872119987     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2420950.2420957     Document Type: Conference Paper

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