Authentication Using Text and Graphical Password

Graphical password tends to be very promising and trending alternative technique to traditional methods like simple text password and alphanumeric passwords. It is the ease of use which attracts people. Traditional simple text passwords were too simple to guard the information and alphanumeric passwords possessed one huge disadvantage i.e., users ability to remember these passwords. Overcoming these problems of old techniques, graphical password came to life since it was a fact that people or users will remember the pictures better than the text or alphanumeric passwords. In this paper, a graphical password is developed which is in a form of a 3×3 matrix. Images in this matrix will be shuffled within, to avoid eavesdropping and shoulder surfing. The shuffle feature of this graphical password will stand against various attacks.