Iteckne (Apr 2016)

Multifactor authentication using a kinect sensor

  • Fatima Moumtadi,
  • Luis Alfonso García-Vázquez

DOI
https://doi.org/10.15332/iteckne.v13i1.1379
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 23 – 35

Abstract

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In this paper a multifactor authentication system by using Kinect sensor and computer equipment was developed. It was used the C# language for coding with the development environment and tools provided by the manufacturer for Windows operating system, to choose a combination of authentication methods to reduce the ability of a non-authorized user to be eligible to access a certain place or system. Five methods were chosen to obtain the multifactor authentication, covering the three categories of authentication methods: Information keys, physical keys and biometric keys, based respectively in something the person knows, something the person has and something the person is. A reliable, robust and easy to use authentication system was achieved, favoring the reliability and reducing the complexity of each of the individual methods. It proved to be possible to develop a multifactor authentication system with Kinect sensor.

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