A Taxonomy of Multimedia-based Graphical User Authentication for Green Internet of Things

Authentication receives enormous consideration from the research community and is proven to be an interesting field in today’s era. User authentication is the major concern because people have their private data on devices. To strengthen user authentication, passwords have been introduced. In the past, the text-based password was the traditional way of authentication, but this method has particular shortcomings. The graphical password has been introduced as an alternative, which uses a picture or a set of pictures to generate a password. In the future, it is a requirement of such approaches to maintain robustness and consume fewer energy resources to become suitable for the Green Internet of Things (IoT). Similarly, diverse graphical password authentication mechanisms have been used to provide users with better security and usability. In this article, we conduct an extensive survey on the existing approaches of graphical password authentication to highlight the challenges required to be addressed for Green IoT. In comparison to other existing surveys, the objective is to consolidate the graphical password technique and to identify the problem associated with it. Besides, this survey will also identify the vulnerabilities of the graphical password against several potential attacks. We have also examined the strengths and weaknesses of each technique along with the future research directions. This study also evaluates the usability of each approach by considering learnability, memorability, and so forth and also presents a comparative analysis with security.