A survey paper on keystroke dynamics authentication for current applications

Abstract

Online learning is a common tool among university students that depends solely on the Internet medium. However, the lack of monitoring during examination sessions has resulted in the rising cases of online cheating among the students. As such, better mechanisms to replace the use of password authentication are needed to enhance the level of security for the online learning assessment. Keystroke dynamics is one of the most popular methods used, because it does not require any extra devices other than the keyboard. In addition, it can be used as a tool to secure online learning system, although the username and password are known to the user. This paper aimed to comprehensively investigate authentication systems, specifically the keystroke dynamic authentication system for current applications. Besides, the applications and the keystroke benchmarking dataset were also reviewed to have a better insight about their security and usability and to improve the level of security in the current online learning environment.