USER AUTHENTICATION USING NATIVE LANGUAGE PASSWORDS

Information security is necessary for any organization. Intrusion prevention is the basic level of security which requires user authentication. User can be authenticated to a machine by passwords. Traditional textual passwords are vulnerable to many attacks. Graphical passwords are introduced as alternatives to textual passwords to overcome these problems. This paper introduces native language passwords for authentication. Native language character set consists of characters with single or multiple strokes. User can select one (or more) character(s) for his password. The shape and strokes of the characters are used for authentication.