TY - JFULL AU - Md. Asraful Haque and Babbar Imam PY - 2014/3/ TI - A New Graphical Password: Combination of Recall & Recognition Based Approach T2 - International Journal of Computer and Information Engineering SP - 319 EP - 324 VL - 8 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/9997703 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 86, 2014 N2 - Information Security is the most describing problem in present times. To cop up with the security of the information, the passwords were introduced. The alphanumeric passwords are the most popular authentication method and still used up to now. However, text based passwords suffer from various drawbacks such as they are easy to crack through dictionary attacks, brute force attacks, keylogger, social engineering etc. Graphical Password is a good replacement for text password. Psychological studies say that human can remember pictures better than text. So this is the fact that graphical passwords are easy to remember. But at the same time due to this reason most of the graphical passwords are prone to shoulder surfing. In this paper, we have suggested a shoulder-surfing resistant graphical password authentication method. The system is a combination of recognition and pure recall based techniques. Proposed scheme can be useful for smart hand held devices (like smart phones i.e. PDAs, iPod, iPhone, etc) which are more handy and convenient to use than traditional desktop computer systems. ER -