Notice of Violation of IEEE Publication Principles: Authentication using graphical password to upgrade security & memorability

Notice of Violation of IEEE Publication Principles

"Authentication Using Graphical Password To Upgrade Security & Memorability"
by Vimal Kant Tyagi, Sunil Kumar Chowdhary, Naveen Garg,
in the Proceedings of 2011 IEEE Recent Advances in Intelligent Computational Systems (RAICS), October 2011

After careful and considered review of the content and authorship of this paper by a duly constituted expert committee, this paper has been found to be in violation of IEEE's Publication Principles.

This paper contains substantial duplication of original text from the paper cited below. The original text was copied without attribution (including appropriate references to the original author(s) and/or paper title) and without permission.

Due to the nature of this violation, reasonable effort should be made to remove all past references to this paper, and future references should be made to the following article:

"YAGP: Yet Another Graphical Password"
by Haichang Gao, Xuewu Guo, Xiaoping Chen, Liming Wang, and Xiyang Liu
in the Proceedings of the 2008 13th Asia-Pacific Computer Systems Architecture Conference (ACSAC), August 2008, pp. 121–129.


Today we use Alphanumeric passwords in computer and network to authenticate the user. It is well known that long, alphanumeric passwords are difficult to remember, while shorter ones are easily to attack. Graphical password scheme provides a alternative to this problem. Draw-A-Secret (DAS) is a user drawing implementation on a grid canvas. This paper highlights a graphical password scheme inspired by DAS and serve the the advantages of free drawing positions and large password space. Experiments illustrate the effectiveness of this scheme.